<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[All theological language is necessarily analogical, but it was singularly unfortunate that the Church, in speaking of punishment for sin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8118]]></link><description><![CDATA[All theological language is necessarily analogical, but it was singularly unfortunate that the Church, in speaking of punishment for sin, should have chosen the analogy of criminal law, for the analogy is incompatible with the Christian belief in God as the creator of Man. Criminal laws are laws, imposed on men, who are already in existence, with or without their consent, and, with the possible exception of capital punishment for murder, there is no logical relation between the nature of a crime and the penalty inflicted for committing it. If God created man, then the laws of man's spiritual nature must, like the laws of his physical nature, be laws -- laws, that is to say, which he is free to defy but no more free to break than he can break the law of gravity by jumping out of the window, or the laws of biochemistry by getting drunk -- and the consequences of defying them must be as inevitable and as intrinsically related to their nature as a broken leg or a hangover. To state spiritual laws in the imperative -- Thou shalt love God with all thy being, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself -- is simply a pedagogical technique, as when a mother says to her small son, "Stay away from the window!" because the child does not yet know what will happen if he falls out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend;  But if he will thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend;  But if he will thy friendly checks forego,   Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64716]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China is expected to eliminate some key restrictions by January of 2005. Earlier, companies with a market cap of under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34657]]></link><description><![CDATA[China is expected to eliminate some key restrictions by January of 2005. Earlier, companies with a market cap of under $2 billion could operate in China only with a local joint-venture partner. This will no longer be valid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy neck is a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy neck is a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   If we would indeed know God in growing intimacy, we must go this way of renunciation. And if we are set upon the pursuit of God, He will sooner or later bring us to this test. Abraham's testing was, at the time, not known to him as such, yet if he had taken some course other than the one he did, the whole history off the Old Testament would have been different. God would have found His man, no doubt, but the loss to Abraham would have been tragic beyond the telling. So we will be brought one by one to the testing place, and we may never know when we are there. At that testing place there will be no dozen possible choices for us; just one and an alternative, but our whole future will be conditioned by the choice we make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein,  Christ-like is it for sin to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein,  Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,   God-like is it all sin to leave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to inquire tomorrow and perhaps make an issue out of it. I'm going to have to see where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37887]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to inquire tomorrow and perhaps make an issue out of it. I'm going to have to see where we stand .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57269]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. [Lat., Anima certe, quia spiritus, in sicco habitare non potest; ideo in sanguine fertur habitare.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65573]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't get any offense going. I thought we did a decent job of getting some good shots, but you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32450]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't get any offense going. I thought we did a decent job of getting some good shots, but you have to be able to finish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had more chances tonight. The defense got the ball back for us all night, and we were able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32760]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had more chances tonight. The defense got the ball back for us all night, and we were able to make something happen with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We felt we could still be true to the open-source roots and at the same time go to a business ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40463]]></link><description><![CDATA[We felt we could still be true to the open-source roots and at the same time go to a business model that was proven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree,  And a bird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58515]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree,  And a bird in the solitude singing,   Which speaks to my spirit of thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They responded. They played very unselfishly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35364]]></link><description><![CDATA[They responded. They played very unselfishly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14774]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we're trying to keep pace (with Montreal) so much as we're trying to win as many games ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32353]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we're trying to keep pace (with Montreal) so much as we're trying to win as many games as possible before we finish the season,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all else is lost, the future still remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17133]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all else is lost, the future still remains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is a good servant but a bad master. [Fr., L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un mechant maitre." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is a good servant but a bad master. [Fr., L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un mechant maitre."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom...refer[s] to a social relationship among people- namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom...refer[s] to a social relationship among people- namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to try, no matter how awkward you feel, than not to try it at all. Would you rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38493]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to try, no matter how awkward you feel, than not to try it at all. Would you rather deal with the consequences or the prevention?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you’ll find is that you can overcome anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you’ll find is that you can overcome anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder what Jesus would do if He had to reload Windows 95 for the eighth time today ? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder what Jesus would do if He had to reload Windows 95 for the eighth time today ?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20396]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True is it that we have seen better days. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55655]]></link><description><![CDATA[True is it that we have seen better days. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62031]]></link><description><![CDATA[He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could hear a pin drop when he was done. It was definitely one of the most impressive interviews I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34688]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could hear a pin drop when he was done. It was definitely one of the most impressive interviews I've ever been around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. -Jawaharlal Nehru.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat  That flames ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58254]]></link><description><![CDATA[O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat  That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer,   Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft    Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld     With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For over-warmth, if false, is worse than truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48736]]></link><description><![CDATA[For over-warmth, if false, is worse than truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10611]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faint heart ne'er won fair lady. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If these compromises (by the committee) come through, there's going to be a lot of buy-in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29352]]></link><description><![CDATA[If these compromises (by the committee) come through, there's going to be a lot of buy-in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I brought it on myself. I guaranteed a gold medal (before the Olympics). I'm not doing that this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I brought it on myself. I guaranteed a gold medal (before the Olympics). I'm not doing that this time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gives to all, denies all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gives to all, denies all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66325]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One\'s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I\'ll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66851]]></link><description><![CDATA[One\'s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I\'ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who\'ll be with me will be my family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now reality is beginning to sink in -- that Asia is basically a long-term workout. I really don't see much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now reality is beginning to sink in -- that Asia is basically a long-term workout. I really don't see much relief from Asia for quite a while. I think we'll get tired of hearing about Asia before the year is over, but it's really earnings that's key. It's growth that's really the issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41880</guid></item></channel></rss>