<?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[I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64943]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64943</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[Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound. And news much older than their ale went round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound. And news much older than their ale went round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(for which he won numerous critics' prizes and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32621]]></link><description><![CDATA[(for which he won numerous critics' prizes and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In friendship I early was taught to believe; . . . .  I have found that a friend may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16865]]></link><description><![CDATA[In friendship I early was taught to believe; . . . .  I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is usually thinking about something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is usually thinking about something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two heads are better than one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two heads are better than one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then you give your actors broad strokes based on what your idea is for what is going on in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then you give your actors broad strokes based on what your idea is for what is going on in the room and the circumstances surrounding it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers,  The water is held in its arms  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers,  The water is held in its arms   And the sky is held in the water.    What is water,     That pours silver,      And can hold the sky?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46894]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suggestions that umpires award free kicks without regard to the merits [of a free kick], that umpiring is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suggestions that umpires award free kicks without regard to the merits [of a free kick], that umpiring is not a worthwhile pursuit for kids and that umpires should put their egos in a locker are offensive and damaging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Der Kaiser of dis Faderland, Und Gott on high all dings commands,  We two--ach! Don't you understand?   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Der Kaiser of dis Faderland, Und Gott on high all dings commands,  We two--ach! Don't you understand?   Myself--und Gott.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15672]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, motionless and dark, eluded search Self-shrouded: and anon, starring the sky,  Rose like a shower of fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, motionless and dark, eluded search Self-shrouded: and anon, starring the sky,  Rose like a shower of fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least,  But each with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least,  But each with its own heart and mind,   Each of its own distinctive kind,    Yet each a part and none the whole,     But all together form one soul;      That soul Our Country at its best,       No North, no South, no East, no West,        No yours, no mine, but always Ours,         Merged in one Power our lesser powers,          For no one's favor, great or small,           But all for Each and each for All.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate ingratitude more in man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,  Or any taint of vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51529]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate ingratitude more in man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,  Or any taint of vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the hills and far away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the hills and far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62159]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you masterthe old rule, you are then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21483]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you masterthe old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3216]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started out with nothing. I still have most of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2163]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65849]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man always has two reasons for doing anything--a good reason and the real reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man always has two reasons for doing anything--a good reason and the real reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47004]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and of little accidents; not allowing to itself any infirmity which it strives not to master, aiming at what it cannot yet reach, desiring to be of an angelic purity, and of a perfect innocence, and a seraphical fervor, and fears every image of offense; is as much afflicted at an idle word as some at an act of adultery, and will not allow to itself so much anger as will disturb a child, nor endure the impurity of a dream. And this is the curiosity and niceness of divine love: this is the fear of God, and is the daughter and production of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42222]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As shines the moon amid the lesser fires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48550]]></link><description><![CDATA[As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I commend you in taking this step to move the company forward, ... I recognize these new contracts involve enormous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I commend you in taking this step to move the company forward, ... I recognize these new contracts involve enormous sacrifices by our employees. We have our work cut out for us; we are not out of the woods yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May all your labors be in vein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59400]]></link><description><![CDATA[May all your labors be in vein.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a really nice surprise, ... We were the only newcomers, and doggone if we didn't take it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37509]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a really nice surprise, ... We were the only newcomers, and doggone if we didn't take it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of these guys will back down from anything. I don't think they're afraid of the big crowds or the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33942]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of these guys will back down from anything. I don't think they're afraid of the big crowds or the moment. I think they'll thrive on that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63435]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nate senses when we're in danger. He had some big drives and foul shots down the stretch and really takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nate senses when we're in danger. He had some big drives and foul shots down the stretch and really takes it over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605   I am verily persuaded that the Lord has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605   I am verily persuaded that the Lord has more Truth yet to break forth out of His holy Word. For my part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the Condition of the Reformed Churches, who are come to a Period in Religion and will go at present no farther than the instruments of their Reformation. The Lutheran can't be drawn to go beyond what Luther saw; and the Calvinists, you see, stick fast where they were left by that great man of God, who yet saw not all things... I beseech you, remember, 'tis an Article of your Church Covenant, that you be ready to receive whatever Truth shall be made known to you from the written Word of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the ref called charging than it's a charge. I have no arguments with that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40720]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the ref called charging than it's a charge. I have no arguments with that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52558]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion. [Lat., Diis proximus ille est  Quem ratio non ira movet: qui factor rependens   Consilio punire potest.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He showed me his slider was his command pitch. I told him, 'You get behind in the count, throw it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30296]]></link><description><![CDATA[He showed me his slider was his command pitch. I told him, 'You get behind in the count, throw it anyway.' He started throwing the breaking ball with the fastball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61748</guid></item></channel></rss>