<?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[If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36755]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1904]]></link><description><![CDATA[How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  He was too great for his disciples. And in view of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7780]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  He was too great for his disciples. And in view of what he plainly said, is it any wonder that all who were rich and prosperous felt a horror of strange things, a swimming of their world at his teaching? Perhaps the priests and the rich men understood him better than his followers. He was dragging out all the little private reservations they had made from social service into the light of a universal religious life. He was like some terrible moral huntsman digging mankind out of the snug burrows in which they had lived hitherto. In the white blaze of this kingdom of his there was to be no property, no privilege, no pride and precedence; no motive indeed and no reward but love. Is it any wonder that men were dazzled and blinded and cried out against him? Even his disciples cried out when he would not spare them the light. Is it any wonder that the priests realized that between this man and themselves there was no choice but that he or priestcraft should perish? Is it any wonder that the Roman soldiers, confronted and amazed by something soaring over their comprehension and threatening all their disciplines, should take refuge in wild laughter, and crown him with thorns and robe him in purple and make a mock Caesar of him? For to take him seriously was to enter upon a strange and alarming life, to abandon habits, to control instincts and impulses, to essay an incredible happiness... Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35783]]></link><description><![CDATA[People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35783</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[If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment. [Lat., Non sest aliena res, quae fere ab honestis negligi solet, cura bene ac velociter scribendi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our survey this year has definitely found improved profit levels emerging sooner rather than later, and this is very encouraging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our survey this year has definitely found improved profit levels emerging sooner rather than later, and this is very encouraging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the end of the day [Friday, Sept. 1] we had clothes and food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32079]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the end of the day [Friday, Sept. 1] we had clothes and food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is born without faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50303]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is born without faults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it willbut grow and gather to itself such explosive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21570]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it willbut grow and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it burststhrough it will blow up everything in its way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, now a roundel and a fairy song; Then, for the third part of a minute, hence--  Some to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, now a roundel and a fairy song; Then, for the third part of a minute, hence--  Some to kill canters in the musk-rose buds,   Some war with reremice for their leathren wings,    To make my small elves coats, and some keep back     The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders      At our quaint spirits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Goneril:) I have been worth the whistle. (Albany:) O Goneril,  You are not worth the dust which the rude ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62337]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Goneril:) I have been worth the whistle. (Albany:) O Goneril,  You are not worth the dust which the rude wind   Blows in your face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of these small businesses can offer the opportunity to showcase the value of women in the workplace in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of these small businesses can offer the opportunity to showcase the value of women in the workplace in a unique way. I encourage small-business owners and their employees to take their daughters to work with them on this special day, as I will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15337]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[one of the great journalists who never hesitated or was afraid to say the truth and defend Lebanon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42611]]></link><description><![CDATA[one of the great journalists who never hesitated or was afraid to say the truth and defend Lebanon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two logical places they could come across either the Iraqi or Syrian borders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40146]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two logical places they could come across either the Iraqi or Syrian borders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and they are ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60589]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and they are ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?  The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky   Thou still canst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?  The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky   Thou still canst find the color of thy wing,    The hue of May.     Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why,      Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring?       Whither away?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long run, crowding out tends to mitigate the effects of fiscal policy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38032]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long run, crowding out tends to mitigate the effects of fiscal policy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If something goes wrong in an at-bat, you can't worry about the past. I go up there thinking that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42502]]></link><description><![CDATA[If something goes wrong in an at-bat, you can't worry about the past. I go up there thinking that no one can beat me. Just know that the pitcher isn't going to beat you every at-bat. In baseball, you can fail 70 percent of the time and that means you're a great hitter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63407]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavours which proceed from fear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavours which proceed from fear and uncertainty, both in things spiritual and things temporal, or civil. Whilst men are under the power of actual impressions from such fears, they will convert to God, yea, they will turn in a moment, and perfect their holiness in an instant; but so soon as that impression wears off (as it will do on every occasion, and upon none at all) such persons are as dead and cold towards God as the lead or iron, which but now ran in a fiery stream, is now when the heat is departed from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either this or upon this. (Either bring this back or be brought back upon it.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either this or upon this. (Either bring this back or be brought back upon it.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the number of errors and misjudgments in the lead-up to the publication of the story was so great that firm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33169]]></link><description><![CDATA[the number of errors and misjudgments in the lead-up to the publication of the story was so great that firm action was both justified and necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As regards rap music, I believe that the "c" is silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20138]]></link><description><![CDATA[As regards rap music, I believe that the "c" is silent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did have a very solid fall, which is a little bit unusual. A couple years ago, we had a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30882]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did have a very solid fall, which is a little bit unusual. A couple years ago, we had a real good fall, and that was the year when we had a very good team. So I'm hoping this is a good sign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8539]]></link><description><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them.   ... Charles Haddon Spurgeon August 4, 2000 Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.   ... William Barclay, The Plain Man's Book of Prayers, Introduction  August 5, 2000 Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it . . . so that the confidence of the German people shall be put in the equity of their cause and not in the might of their armies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Thanksgiving, we got to eat inside and it was great! Our time was winding down. But we saw places ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33700]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Thanksgiving, we got to eat inside and it was great! Our time was winding down. But we saw places being decorated with Christmas ornaments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56793]]></link><description><![CDATA[...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O rare protector of the sheep, a wolf! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48859]]></link><description><![CDATA[O rare protector of the sheep, a wolf!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad. [Lat., Id commune malum; semel insanivimus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21022]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad. [Lat., Id commune malum; semel insanivimus omnes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4530]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46928]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody saw anyone being handcuffed. Officer Gant was moving into a position of cover. He was coming around a planter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody saw anyone being handcuffed. Officer Gant was moving into a position of cover. He was coming around a planter with a tree in it. His view was partially obstructed when the shot was fired. Sgt. Reed was in the arrest process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opinion, saying tailors had their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58563]]></link><description><![CDATA[One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opinion, saying tailors had their business at their fingers' ends.   - William Hazlitt,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet what are they, the learned and the great? Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!  Who shall presume to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet what are they, the learned and the great? Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!  Who shall presume to prophesy their date,   Where nought is certain save the uncertainty of fate?   - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The third quarter really hurt us. They had been playing us full-court man the entire game, but we went through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The third quarter really hurt us. They had been playing us full-court man the entire game, but we went through a couple of minutes in that period where Oakland got even more aggressive; we just couldn't hang on to the ball and they were able to score off it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt; and children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15144</guid></item></channel></rss>