<?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[Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31491]]></link><description><![CDATA[When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prices could remain at or above $38 for the next one to two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prices could remain at or above $38 for the next one to two years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41477]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58662]]></link><description><![CDATA[have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And hail their queen, fair regent of the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43072]]></link><description><![CDATA[And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19502]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some MLAs may have personal differences. But all differences should be dealt with amicably within the party framework. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some MLAs may have personal differences. But all differences should be dealt with amicably within the party framework.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forrester's company is getting business through Norcross's bank, so he's locked into the whole pay-to-play politics of this state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forrester's company is getting business through Norcross's bank, so he's locked into the whole pay-to-play politics of this state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of thinking independently together ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of thinking independently together]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can form a coalition very quickly but this may undermine its stability ... or we can take our time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34781]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can form a coalition very quickly but this may undermine its stability ... or we can take our time and design a coalition government that will be stable and stay the course for four years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54830]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cricket is basically baseball on valium. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cricket is basically baseball on valium.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;  Or on wide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;  Or on wide waving wings expanded bear   The flying chariot through the fields of air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43992</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[Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,  And therefore are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,  And therefore are they very dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She did a really good job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40327]]></link><description><![CDATA[She did a really good job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53570]]></link><description><![CDATA[But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are many, but the truth is one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are many, but the truth is one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like people, like priest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like people, like priest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46744]]></link><description><![CDATA[For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no office hours for leaders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22553]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no office hours for leaders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day,  Naked and featherless, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day,  Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous,   Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29550]]></link><description><![CDATA[However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me  Weary and old with service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51362]]></link><description><![CDATA[My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me  Weary and old with service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are really getting it going towards the end of the season. I really think this week the team's chemistry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38209]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are really getting it going towards the end of the season. I really think this week the team's chemistry is great. They are really excited and are supporting each other going into the final stretch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse,  And, chanting her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse,  And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. -Albert Einstein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. -Albert Einstein.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started just trying to make pars off the 10th hole because it was so windy. I was putting it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29593]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started just trying to make pars off the 10th hole because it was so windy. I was putting it pretty well,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,  Our faith triumphant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,  Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,   Are all with thee,--are all with thee!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53349]]></link><description><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Continuing a short series on prayer:   I have so much to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Continuing a short series on prayer:   I have so much to do (today) that I should spend the first three hours in prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance,  But never out of judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24661]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance,  But never out of judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Welfare to Work program has worked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37159]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Welfare to Work program has worked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16530]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin; For to deny each article with oath  Cannot remove nor choke the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin; For to deny each article with oath  Cannot remove nor choke the strong conception   That I do groan withal. Thou art to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31]]></link><description><![CDATA[I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. [Lat., Etiam illud adjungo, saepius ad laudem atque virtutem naturam sine doctrina, quam sine natura valisse doctrinam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9798]]></link><description><![CDATA[So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth, [It., Se toso grazia risolva le schiume  Di vostra conscienza, si che chiaro   Per essa scenda della mente il fiume.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  That Jones shall worship the "god within him" turns out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  That Jones shall worship the "god within him" turns out ultimately to mean that Jones shall worship Jones. Let Jones worship the sun or moon -- anything rather than the Inner Light; let Jones worship cats or crocodiles, if he can find any in his street, but not the god within. Christianity came into the world firstly in order to assert with violence that a man had not only to look inwards, but to look outwards, to behold with astonishment and enthusiasm a divine company and a divine captain. The only fun of being a Christian was that a man was not left alone with the Inner Light, but definitely recognized an outer light, fair as the sun, clear as the moon, terrible as an army with banners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's exciting; I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13685]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's exciting; I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13685</guid></item></channel></rss>