<?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[One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reasons. (1) It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8543]]></link><description><![CDATA[One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reasons. (1) It raises scruples when we don't keep the routine. (2) It raises presumption when we do. Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real charity and faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49361]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11451]]></link><description><![CDATA[More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fewer words the better prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fewer words the better prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, whenever I see thee, thirst, and holding the cup, apply it to my lips more for thy sake than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59408]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, whenever I see thee, thirst, and holding the cup, apply it to my lips more for thy sake than for drinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is the test of integrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is the test of integrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But here by the mill the castled clouds Mocked themselves in the dizzy water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8910]]></link><description><![CDATA[But here by the mill the castled clouds Mocked themselves in the dizzy water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5632]]></link><description><![CDATA[And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deo et Patriae [For God and country] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deo et Patriae [For God and country]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stick and a string with a fly at one end and a fool at the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16096]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stick and a string with a fly at one end and a fool at the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These arrests have taken place under the present structures of laws, which proves that these laws can tackle this issue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29079]]></link><description><![CDATA[These arrests have taken place under the present structures of laws, which proves that these laws can tackle this issue adequately.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. - The Summing Up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27813]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. - The Summing Up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58902]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Christians believe in divine sovereignty but some are not aware that they do, and mistakenly imagine and insist that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6773]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Christians believe in divine sovereignty but some are not aware that they do, and mistakenly imagine and insist that they reject it. What causes this odd state of affairs? The root cause is the same as in most cases of error in the Church--the intruding of rationalistic speculations, the passion for systematic consistency, a reluctance to recognize the existence of mystery and to let God be wiser than men, and a consequent subjecting of Scripture to the supposed demands of human logic. People see that the Bible teaches man's responsibility for his actions; they do not see how this is consistent with the sovereign Lordship of God over those actions. They are not content to let the two truths live side by side, as they do in the Scriptures, but jump to the conclusion that, in order to uphold the biblical truth of human responsibility, they are bound to reject the equally biblical and equally true doctrine of divine sovereignty, and to explain away the great number of texts that teach it. The desire to over-simplify the Bible by cutting out the mysteries is natural to our perverse minds, and it is not surprising, that even good men should fall victims to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Page regrets having uttered an obscenity in open court. Sixty days to serve in jail is disproportionately severe relative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Page regrets having uttered an obscenity in open court. Sixty days to serve in jail is disproportionately severe relative to the transgression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are creating an exclusive growth environment that benefits some people but not the poor. While there is some multiplier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are creating an exclusive growth environment that benefits some people but not the poor. While there is some multiplier effect, the pace is still slow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23523]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing,  Teaching barren moors to smile,   Painting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing,  Teaching barren moors to smile,   Painting pictures mile on mile,    Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths     Whence a smokeless incense breathes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing succeeds like success. [Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing succeeds like success. [Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rejection as unhistorical of all passages which narrate miracles is sensible if we start by knowing that the miraculous... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rejection as unhistorical of all passages which narrate miracles is sensible if we start by knowing that the miraculous... never occurs. Now, I do not want here to discuss whether the miraculous is possible: I only want to point out that this is a purely philosophical question. Scholars, as scholars, speak on it with no more authority than anyone else. The canon, "If miraculous, unhistorical", is one they bring to their study of the texts, not one they have learned from it. If one is speaking of authority, the united authority of all the Biblical critics in the world counts for nothing. On this they speak simply as men -- men obviously influenced by, and perhaps insufficiently critical of, the spirit of the age they grew up in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I look at the Hudson River, I can't help but feel overwhelmed by its beauty and responsible for its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33179]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I look at the Hudson River, I can't help but feel overwhelmed by its beauty and responsible for its protection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60209]]></link><description><![CDATA[All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not condone the violence which has erupted in many Muslim countries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34337]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not condone the violence which has erupted in many Muslim countries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set the ground rules and make sure it feels right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set the ground rules and make sure it feels right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no coming to consciousness without pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26849]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no coming to consciousness without pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to drawexclusively from his own resources. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to drawexclusively from his own resources.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32132]]></link><description><![CDATA[National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24614]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3416]]></link><description><![CDATA[A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were in a better condition, acknowledging only a terror above them flaming on that unknown mountain height, than stooping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8125]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were in a better condition, acknowledging only a terror above them flaming on that unknown mountain height, than stooping to worship the idol below them. Fear is nobler than sensuality. Fear is better than no God, better than a god made with hands. In that fear lay deep hidden the sense of the infinite. The worship of fear is true, though very low; and though not acceptable to God in itself -- for only the worship of spirit and of truth is acceptable to him -- yet even in His sight it is precious. For he regards men not as they are merely, but as they shall be; not as they shall be merely, but as they are now growing, or capable of growing, towards that image after which He made them that they might grow to it. Therefore a thousand stages, each in itself all but valueless, are of inestimable worth as the necessary and connected gradations of an infinite progress. A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The girl is the smallest portion of herself. [The girl is all crinoline and chignon.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50770]]></link><description><![CDATA[The girl is the smallest portion of herself. [The girl is all crinoline and chignon.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was messy, but he finished the game. There were moments when he was throwing the ball very well and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31329]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was messy, but he finished the game. There were moments when he was throwing the ball very well and there were times when he lost touch with the strike zone. I was impressed with how he came back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[will insure that you will never serve a dried-out, hard, tasteless pork chop again and your pork loin roasts will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30734]]></link><description><![CDATA[will insure that you will never serve a dried-out, hard, tasteless pork chop again and your pork loin roasts will be juicy and tender.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30734</guid></item></channel></rss>