<?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[This autonomy of man, this attempt of the Ego to understand itself out of itself, is the lie concerning man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6222]]></link><description><![CDATA[This autonomy of man, this attempt of the Ego to understand itself out of itself, is the lie concerning man which we call sin. The truth about man is that his ground is not in himself but in God -- that his essence is not in self sufficient reason but in the Word, in the challenge of God, in responsibility, not in self-sufficiency. The true being of man is realized when he bases himself upon God's Word. Faith is then not an impossibility or a salto mortale [mortal leap], but that which is truly natural; and the real salto mortale (a mortal leap indeed!) is just the assertion of autonomy, self-sufficiency, God-likeness. [It is] through this usurped independence [that] man separates himself from God, and at the same time isolates himself from his fellows. Individualism is the necessary consequence of rational autonomy, just as love is the necessary consequence of faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62686]]></link><description><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, andearning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21844]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, andearning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Christians believe in divine sovereignty but some are not aware that they do, and mistakenly imagine and insist that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6773]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Christians believe in divine sovereignty but some are not aware that they do, and mistakenly imagine and insist that they reject it. What causes this odd state of affairs? The root cause is the same as in most cases of error in the Church--the intruding of rationalistic speculations, the passion for systematic consistency, a reluctance to recognize the existence of mystery and to let God be wiser than men, and a consequent subjecting of Scripture to the supposed demands of human logic. People see that the Bible teaches man's responsibility for his actions; they do not see how this is consistent with the sovereign Lordship of God over those actions. They are not content to let the two truths live side by side, as they do in the Scriptures, but jump to the conclusion that, in order to uphold the biblical truth of human responsibility, they are bound to reject the equally biblical and equally true doctrine of divine sovereignty, and to explain away the great number of texts that teach it. The desire to over-simplify the Bible by cutting out the mysteries is natural to our perverse minds, and it is not surprising, that even good men should fall victims to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is the reward of virtue. [Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is the reward of virtue. [Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They'll be down as long as it takes to get it repaired. Luckily, they have a generator, and that helps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31120]]></link><description><![CDATA[They'll be down as long as it takes to get it repaired. Luckily, they have a generator, and that helps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42069]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good & quickly seldome meete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good & quickly seldome meete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is apromissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is apromissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacred cows make the best hamburger ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacred cows make the best hamburger]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48465]]></link><description><![CDATA[You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Autumn wood the aster knows, The empty nest, the wind that grieves,  The sunlight breaking thro' the shade, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Autumn wood the aster knows, The empty nest, the wind that grieves,  The sunlight breaking thro' the shade,   The squirrel chattering overhead,    The timid rabbits lighter tread     Among the rustling leaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tasteful rather than expensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tasteful rather than expensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.  [Ger., Die Kirch' allein, meine lieben ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.  [Ger., Die Kirch' allein, meine lieben Frauen,   Kann ungerechtes Gut verdauen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan has much more aggressive plans to build plants and facilities in North America than any other country. Plus, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Japan has much more aggressive plans to build plants and facilities in North America than any other country. Plus, we already had two Japanese plants here, so we wanted to capitalize on that relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46478]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of creation is older than the art of killing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of creation is older than the art of killing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and . . . you must hate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13860]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and . . . you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392  The one great fear which is a holy fear is, I think, lest you make your adventure too small, too easy, too self-full, too mediocre. Christianity fails because people will keep on the surface too much, they will not go down to face these deep inner obediences; and that is ultimately to be beaten by themselves. We talk big and play so small. And the world has found it out --the great bulk have discarded Christianity as the way of Hope and put their hope in other things.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  September 26, 1998  Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942  Even those of us who are inside it will agree that, in the main, the Church and all for which it stands occupy a palpably smaller place in the life of the average member than it did in former days. We explain it on the ground that life has become fuller, and that, of necessity, our attention nowadays has to percolate over a wide area instead of rushing foam-flecked down a narrower channel -- which is to say, in other words, that Christ is getting lost to us in the crush and throng of things, does not loom up as arresting, as unique, as all-important, as He did to our forefathers. Yet that, when you come to think of it, is no bad definition of unspirituality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's only so much we can do. We can send letters to these people and we can make them pick ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40679]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's only so much we can do. We can send letters to these people and we can make them pick the stuff up, but if you have a neighborhood association ... that goes much farther than what we can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11006]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to talk with people who care about things that matter thatwill make a life-changing difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to talk with people who care about things that matter thatwill make a life-changing difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost?  'Tis better to have fought and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6056]]></link><description><![CDATA[What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost?  'Tis better to have fought and lost   That never to have fought at all!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/472]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46591]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make allowance for necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48889]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make allowance for necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was good for us to take the 100 plus lead and we will wait till tea on fourth day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37027]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was good for us to take the 100 plus lead and we will wait till tea on fourth day to see how things go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You really love him, don't you? a simple psychological question, no name was mentioned but suddenly someone came into your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65771]]></link><description><![CDATA[You really love him, don't you? a simple psychological question, no name was mentioned but suddenly someone came into your mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing you can back up negativity with is positive play. If you don't believe in yourself, who do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36137]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing you can back up negativity with is positive play. If you don't believe in yourself, who do you believe in?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3058]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no direct interest in those cities and don't have a strategic plan to include them, but that doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32823]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no direct interest in those cities and don't have a strategic plan to include them, but that doesn't mean we won't in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'ld charm her with the magic of a switch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'ld charm her with the magic of a switch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a bridge-builder that will help link the work force, legislators and technology companies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31627]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a bridge-builder that will help link the work force, legislators and technology companies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60849]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would he were fatter! But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear,  I do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would he were fatter! But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear,  I do not know the man I should avoid   So soon as that spare Cassius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The river past, and God forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49909]]></link><description><![CDATA[The river past, and God forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49909</guid></item></channel></rss>