<?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[Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64131]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58610]]></link><description><![CDATA[My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52158]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56922]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he's had his family with him during this time. I think that has really helped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30340]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he's had his family with him during this time. I think that has really helped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30340</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><item><title><![CDATA[AT&T ISNN is designed to help users understand potential threats and to help them better protect themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34182]]></link><description><![CDATA[AT&T ISNN is designed to help users understand potential threats and to help them better protect themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16528]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Condemned whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Condemned whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65193]]></link><description><![CDATA[This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be smart, be intelligent and be informed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think Brad and I have fed off each other our whole careers, and to see him win like that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think Brad and I have fed off each other our whole careers, and to see him win like that just inspires me even more, ... If you can't get inspired by what he did, then you don't have a pulse because that was awesome the way he won that tournament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're very athletic, and they run the floor. They have tough-minded guys and they never give up. Even when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34523]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're very athletic, and they run the floor. They have tough-minded guys and they never give up. Even when you have a lead, they always find a way to come back. It's an ACC game and it's going to be a close game I'm sure. We're just going to have to be consistent throughout the game; we can't have long periods where we don't score.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46805]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Did not I, through faith, conquer kingdoms, apply justice, obtain promises, stop the mouths of lions, put out raging fires, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6726]]></link><description><![CDATA["Did not I, through faith, conquer kingdoms, apply justice, obtain promises, stop the mouths of lions, put out raging fires, escape the edge of the sword, win strength out of weakness, become valiant in war, and put foreign armies to flight? Was I not a man of faith and a man of action in one skin? Why are the faithful so afraid of deeds for fear they should fall into 'Justification by works'? And why is Thy Church so uncomfortable with its men of action? And why do men of spirit so often have to work apart from, and even against it? Are there no longer kingdoms to be conquered, injustice to be destroyed, promises to be obtained? The Son of David is a warrior still. Must He tread the winepress alone?".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service is no heritage. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service is no heritage. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to be human? Are we capable, if need be, of fundamental change, or do the dead hands of forgotten ancestors impel us in some direction, indiscriminately for good or ill, and beyond our control? Can we alter our character? Can we improve our societies? Can we leave our children a world better than the one that was left to us? Can we free them from the demons that torment us and haunt our civilization? In the long run, are we wise enough to know what changes to make? Can we be trusted with our own future?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire:   Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven, no. I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven, no. I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan  Under my battlements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52984]]></link><description><![CDATA[The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan  Under my battlements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are lies ... he (Aziz) denied this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29826]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are lies ... he (Aziz) denied this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a sickness full of woes,    All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a sickness full of woes,    All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows,    Most barren with best using.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2953]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The iron entered into his soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The iron entered into his soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11883]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   The very strength and facility of the pessimists' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   The very strength and facility of the pessimists' case at once poses us a problem. If the universe is so bad, or even half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? Men are fools, perhaps; but hardly so foolish as that. The direct inference from black to white, from evil flower to virtuous root, from senseless work to a workman infinitely wise, staggers belief. The spectacle of the universe as revealed by experience can never have been the ground of religion: it must have always been something in spite of which religion, acquired from a different source, was held.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...no civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47105]]></link><description><![CDATA[...no civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an orderly transition, I think. Jordan is taking a less visible role and the broadcast guys are assuming positions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34228]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an orderly transition, I think. Jordan is taking a less visible role and the broadcast guys are assuming positions of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they can't win in fair fight, they resort to all sorts of sly tricks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50810]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they can't win in fair fight, they resort to all sorts of sly tricks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if his name be George, I 'll call him Peter; For new-made honour doth forget men's names. -King John. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55779]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if his name be George, I 'll call him Peter; For new-made honour doth forget men's names. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26013]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56506]]></link><description><![CDATA[With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life together under the Word will remain sound and healthy only where it does not form itself into a movement, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life together under the Word will remain sound and healthy only where it does not form itself into a movement, an order, a society... but rather where it understands itself as being a part of the one, holy, catholic, Christian Church, where it shares actively and passively in the sufferings and struggles of the whole Church. Every principle of selection, every separation connected with it that is not necessitated quite objectively by common work, local conditions, or family connections is of the greatest danger to a Christian community. When the way of intellectual or spiritual selection is taken, the human element always insinuates itself and robs the fellowship of its spiritual power and its effectiveness for the Church, and drives it into sectarianism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20372</guid></item></channel></rss>