<?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[where war becomes unthinkable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41941]]></link><description><![CDATA[where war becomes unthinkable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime--  Not failure, but low aim is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime--  Not failure, but low aim is crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53157]]></link><description><![CDATA[To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the bond of perfection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the bond of perfection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7279]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is only a higher moral truth; but to turn to Christ is far more important than to turn to higher moral truth: it is to turn the face towards Him in whom is all moral truth; it is to turn to HIm in whom is not only the virtue which corresponds to the known vice from which the penitent wishes to flee, but all virtue; it is to turn the face to all holiness, all purity, all grace. It was this repentance which the apostles preached after Pentecost.  ... Roland Allen, Pentecost and the World  ... Also see comments on this book in Bookworms August 23, 2000 Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true: To think without confusion clearly, To love his fellow men sincerely, To act from honest motives purely, To trust in God and heaven securely.   ... Henry van Dyke August 24, 2000 Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle Beginning a short series on the Bible:  The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59803]]></link><description><![CDATA[As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looks like they're going to get a stadium built in L.A., and I'm sure they'll be a team ready ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30872]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looks like they're going to get a stadium built in L.A., and I'm sure they'll be a team ready to move there, too,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19208]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pig bought on credit is forever grunting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10607]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pig bought on credit is forever grunting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Testament is uniformly consistent in seeing something as being wrong in man himself... These analyses of man are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6758]]></link><description><![CDATA[The New Testament is uniformly consistent in seeing something as being wrong in man himself... These analyses of man are based on man's responsibility for his evil actions; they are not saying that it is simply his motions that have gone astray: it is man's will that is the central problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6691]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find courage to accept thy good gifts, that the sorrowful may find courage to accept thy perfect gifts. For to men there is a difference of joy and of sorrow, but for thee, O Lord, there is no difference in these things; everything that comes from thee is a good and perfect gift.   ... Søren Kierkegaard August 16, 2000   By giving to Jesus Christ, the Man who was crucified under Pontius Pilate, this historical personality, the name of Lord, the Saviour, we renounce all mysticism. For mysticism in the strict sense exists only where one soars above the sphere of history, and where in place of the Mediator and the historical event are put the inner word of God, the inner motions of the soul, in order to reach immediacy between soul and God, and, in the end, the identity of both. But while it is necessary to safeguard the Christian message of the Holy Spirit from the mystical misunderstanding by calling attention to its relation to Jesus Christ, it is necessary on the other hand to safeguard the message of Jesus Christ and His work from the orthodox and rationalist misunderstanding by emphasizing that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that which the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His heart and hand both open and both free; For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows; Yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56071]]></link><description><![CDATA[His heart and hand both open and both free; For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows; Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God loveth the clean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8856]]></link><description><![CDATA[God loveth the clean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're thrilled to have developed a game that appeals to massively multiplayer players, as well as fans of the original ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37708]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're thrilled to have developed a game that appeals to massively multiplayer players, as well as fans of the original pen-and-paper game. We also want to thank the 300,000 players that registered for the Beta. We could not have done this without their support.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is,"on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53051]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is,"on the one hand, and "ought," on the other hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is the very essence of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is the very essence of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14999]]></link><description><![CDATA[In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. [Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. [Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51998]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice--  The weakness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice--  The weakness and the wickedness of luxury--   The negligence--the apathy--the evils    Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants,     Whose delegated cruelty surpasses      The worst acts of one energetic master,       However harsh and hard in his own bearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Einstein is an analytical mathematician seeking to give a physical interpretation to the conclusions of his mathematical process. In this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Einstein is an analytical mathematician seeking to give a physical interpretation to the conclusions of his mathematical process. In this he is hampered by a load of contradictory and absurd assumptions of the school that he follows, which throws him into all manner of difficulty. Einstein has such a faculty for embracing both sides of a contradiction that one would have to be of the same frame of mind to follow his thought, it is so peculiarly his own. The whole Relativity theory is as easy to follow as the path of a bat in the air at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  There is no hope of establishing a Christian social order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  There is no hope of establishing a Christian social order except through the labour and sacrifice of those in whom the Spirit of Christ is active.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7998]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been asked what especially he conceived his own duty to be, he would have said that it was to force men to realize once more that the world was actually governed by a just God; that the old familiar story, acknowledged everywhere in words on Sundays and disregarded or openly denied on week-days, was, after all, true. His writings, every one of them, ... were to this same purpose and on this same text -- that truth must be spoken and justice must be done; on any other conditions, no real commonwealth, no common welfare, is permitted or possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Green calm below, blue quietness above. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Green calm below, blue quietness above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce,  Has lived so long, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46576]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce,  Has lived so long, and yet no knowledge he   Has had, till lately, of Phrenology--    A science that by simple dint of     Head-combing he should find a hint of,      When scratching o'er those little pole-hills       The faculties throw up like mole hills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I also have this incredible love for women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40043]]></link><description><![CDATA[I also have this incredible love for women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup, That runs for ages without winding up? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup, That runs for ages without winding up?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1443]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22984]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54280]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If little labour. little are our gaines: Man's fortunes are according to his paines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23938]]></link><description><![CDATA[If little labour. little are our gaines: Man's fortunes are according to his paines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many fine things can be done in a day if you don't always make that day tomorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many fine things can be done in a day if you don't always make that day tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10438]]></link><description><![CDATA[When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24112]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46329]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your pianos travel with you. So does your manager. You have no time for girls. Your manager sees to it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your pianos travel with you. So does your manager. You have no time for girls. Your manager sees to it that no young predatory females get very far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started up the company with a goal of building a real company, unlike so many Internet Bubble startups that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34571]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started up the company with a goal of building a real company, unlike so many Internet Bubble startups that seemed to take the attitude of "let's get mind share, and we'll figure out a way to make money later."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tears fall, they're so easy to wipe off onto my sleeve, but how do I erase the stain from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58777]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tears fall, they're so easy to wipe off onto my sleeve, but how do I erase the stain from my heart?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room  Piled high with cases in my father's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room  Piled high with cases in my father's name;   Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out    Among the giant fossils of my past,     Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs      Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there       At this or that box, pulling through the gap,        In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy,         The first book first. And how I felt it beat          Under my pillow, in the morning's dark,           An hour before the sun would let me read!            My books!             At last, because the time was ripe,              I chanced upon the poets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near;  Their magic force each silent wish conveys, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near;  Their magic force each silent wish conveys,   And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways:    Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean,     For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learnt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51185]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learnt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51185</guid></item></channel></rss>