<?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[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.   ... Blaise Pascal July 29, 2000 Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42623</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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26988]]></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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because they have no name for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me,  And still it half calls up the realms of fairy,   Where I beheld what never was to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64943]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crafty knave needs no broker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10661]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crafty knave needs no broker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14624]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, where you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36931]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, where you have to defend every idea, ... I am a robber of ideas, but for there to be ideas, you have to have discussion. If everyone takes my word for the truth, you can't do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The publication of 'The Colorado Kid' represents a big step forward for us, ... With a first printing of nearly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31394]]></link><description><![CDATA[The publication of 'The Colorado Kid' represents a big step forward for us, ... With a first printing of nearly one million copies, it's by far the biggest book we've ever published, quite possibly the biggest [distributor] Dorchester has ever published as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad to awaken a sleeping dog. [It., Il fait mal eveiller le chien qu dort.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad to awaken a sleeping dog. [It., Il fait mal eveiller le chien qu dort.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the right to do as the law permits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the right to do as the law permits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of good players here, so I'm happy to be where I am. After beating the No. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36697]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of good players here, so I'm happy to be where I am. After beating the No. 4 seed in the first round, I've grown in confidence. I've learned how to fight for the important points.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. - Punica. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. - Punica.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So shall they build me altars in their zeal, Where knaves shall minister, and fools shall kneel:  Where faith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62315]]></link><description><![CDATA[So shall they build me altars in their zeal, Where knaves shall minister, and fools shall kneel:  Where faith may mutter o'er her mystic spell,   Written in blood--and Bigotry may swell    The sail he spreads for Heav'n with blasts from hell!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47977]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't know what the numbers were, but I knew I needed to hit some shots. Then I realized I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't know what the numbers were, but I knew I needed to hit some shots. Then I realized I was going off all by myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12571]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62022]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26322]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54929]]></link><description><![CDATA[In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made difference? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59100]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Caterpillar plant invited us to come. As you can imagine, the president gets invited to a lot of places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Caterpillar plant invited us to come. As you can imagine, the president gets invited to a lot of places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ram thou fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ram thou fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government is asleep -- there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government is asleep -- there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61081]]></link><description><![CDATA[People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Form-criticism... has made an end of the false notion, which for a long time dominated critical scholarship, that it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Form-criticism... has made an end of the false notion, which for a long time dominated critical scholarship, that it was possible throughout the gospels to distill from them a "Life of Jesus" that would be free from dogmatic presuppositions and not affected by any "retouching" derived from the faith of the Church. In fact, however, faith in Jesus Christ crucified and risen did not first appear at some later stage in the tradition, but was the foundation of the tradition, the very soil out of which it grew; and it is in light of that faith alone that the tradition can be understood. This faith in Jesus Christ, the Crucified and Exalted One, explains both the things which the primitive tradition makes known to us, with its manifest concern for the factual truth of the tradition about Jesus, and at the same time the peculiar liberty which the evangelists take in making alterations in the record in points of detail. In relating the acts and words of Jesus, they do not refer back to any sort of "archives" possessed by the community... Jesus Christ is not for them a figure of past history whose proper place is in a library.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in doubt, don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/878]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in doubt, don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/878</guid></item></channel></rss>