<?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[The mandate for equal opportunity doesn't dictate disregard for the differences in candidates' qualities and skills. There is no constitutional ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mandate for equal opportunity doesn't dictate disregard for the differences in candidates' qualities and skills. There is no constitutional right to play ball. All there is a right to compete for it on equal terms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20024]]></link><description><![CDATA[God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51620]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29179]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus' Fig Tree He did belittle you.. but soon he'll bebig you.. and in the springwith blooms he will wig ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus' Fig Tree He did belittle you.. but soon he'll bebig you.. and in the springwith blooms he will wig you.. in summer he'll summon a jade garbto resprig you.. and in the fallon patient twigswith fresh fruit he'll refig you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Latest trade figure came in above market consensus forecast. This is because of a steady recovery in Japan's exports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Latest trade figure came in above market consensus forecast. This is because of a steady recovery in Japan's exports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65515]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. - All About Ourselves and Other Essays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18123]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't play better than that, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40199]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't play better than that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Beginning a series on the church:  The laity... living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Beginning a series on the church:  The laity... living in the world as an integral part of it, is the primary body through which the reality of the phrase "the Church is service" has to be manifested in all spheres of secular life: the Church has to show in her own life and attitude towards others the evidences of the redemptive order which is in Christ an operative fact: Christ the Lord is also Christ the servant: the Church which is the lord of all life is also the servant of all life, and the lordship is shown only through the service. The world wants to see redemption: it is not interested in being talked to about it. A church which is not outward looking... has ceased to be a church as the Body of Christ and has instead become a club for the benefit of its members.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every vice has its excuse ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every vice has its excuse ready.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18416]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41084]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a danger to myself if I get angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a danger to myself if I get angry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think anyone that played left some strokes out on the course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think anyone that played left some strokes out on the course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25481]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravity is only the bark of wisdom; but it preserves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravity is only the bark of wisdom; but it preserves it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt. [Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere dediscenda.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24539]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt. [Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere dediscenda.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there is deliberate, intentional violence by man against man, very particular feelings are generated, ... The victimized population wants ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40835]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there is deliberate, intentional violence by man against man, very particular feelings are generated, ... The victimized population wants revenge. There's a breakdown of trust in your fellow man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21630</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as a man confines his ideas of Christ to a rather misty hero figure of long ago who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7754]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as a man confines his ideas of Christ to a rather misty hero figure of long ago who died a tragic death, and so long as his ideas of Christianity are bounded by what he calls the Sermon on the Mount (which he has almost certainly not read in its entirety since he became grown-up), then the living truth never has a chance to touch him. This is plainly what has happened to many otherwise intelligent people. Over the years I have had hundreds of conversations with people, many of them of higher intellectual calibre than my own, who quite obviously had no idea of what Christianity is really about. I was in no case trying to catch them out: I was simply and gently trying to find out what they knew about the New Testament. My conclusion was that they knew virtually nothing. This I find pathetic and somewhat horrifying. It means that the most important Event in human history is politely and quietly bypassed. For it is not as though the evidence had been examined and found unconvincing: it had simply never been examined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[morning: that first sapphire dome of glow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46786]]></link><description><![CDATA[morning: that first sapphire dome of glow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61788]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country town;  May I have a warm house, with a stone at my gate,   And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate.    May I govern my passions with an absolute sway,     Grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,      Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.   - Walter Pope, The Old Man's Wish,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56437]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2639]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to starve free than be a fat slave ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to starve free than be a fat slave]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1383]]></link><description><![CDATA[In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23746]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death takes the good, too good to stay, And leaves the bad, too bad to take away ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death takes the good, too good to stay, And leaves the bad, too bad to take away]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since yesterday I have been in Alcala. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,  When that dull distance shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since yesterday I have been in Alcala. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,  When that dull distance shall no more divide us;   And I no more shall scale thy wall by night    To steal a kiss from thee, as I do now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since I was a little kid I'd read these adventure books. I'd read about Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since I was a little kid I'd read these adventure books. I'd read about Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Every time my dad moved to a new military base, the first thing I'd do was climb the highest hill around, which usually wasn't very high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1289]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a long work sleep may be naturally expected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50268]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can get away from it. I can find myself going out and playing it until 10 at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can get away from it. I can find myself going out and playing it until 10 at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60207]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's got all my focus right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39528]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's got all my focus right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh my debt of praise, how weighty is it, and how far run up! Oh that others would lend me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh my debt of praise, how weighty is it, and how far run up! Oh that others would lend me to pay, and teach me to praise!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200   It was my generation, and the generation that preceded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200   It was my generation, and the generation that preceded me, that forgot. The younger generation is not primarily to be blamed. Those who are struggling today, those who are far away and doing that which is completely contrary to the Christian conscience, are not first to be blamed. It is my generation, and the generation that preceded me, who turned away. Today we are left, not only with a religion and a church without meaning, but... with a culture without meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on education:   The history of our student movement [Inter-Varsity] has demonstrated that a prayer-less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on education:   The history of our student movement [Inter-Varsity] has demonstrated that a prayer-less chapter is a fruitless chapter. Prayer spells all the difference between working for God in our own strength and wisdom or being fellow laborers together with Him in the work that He is seeking to do in the University.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue is, can you make a law to restrict free speech? The First Amendment says that 'Congress shall make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue is, can you make a law to restrict free speech? The First Amendment says that 'Congress shall make no law (abridging the freedom of speech).' No law, period.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36048</guid></item></channel></rss>