<?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[Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14324]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56409]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was motivation for us to win the region title on their home floor. It would have been nice to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38280]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was motivation for us to win the region title on their home floor. It would have been nice to have won it at home, but to win it there was special, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65115]]></link><description><![CDATA[In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To his tuned spirit the wild heather-bells Ring Sabbath knells;  The sod's a cushion for his pious want,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50170]]></link><description><![CDATA[To his tuned spirit the wild heather-bells Ring Sabbath knells;  The sod's a cushion for his pious want,   And, consecrated by the heaven within it,    The sky-blue pool a font.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13779]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50286]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-- growth among those who don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18411]]></link><description><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-- growth among those who don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18411</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[A man always has two reasons for doing anything--a good reason and the real reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man always has two reasons for doing anything--a good reason and the real reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but now that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a member of any organized party--I am a Democrat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a member of any organized party--I am a Democrat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the wisest of all counselors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the wisest of all counselors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm getting jobs because people like me on a show. I'll take it. It's nice to hear that someone like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm getting jobs because people like me on a show. I'll take it. It's nice to hear that someone like a Matt Groening is a fan of the show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women relate to Ivana because she suffered. If she is over the top with her wardrobe, or the things she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women relate to Ivana because she suffered. If she is over the top with her wardrobe, or the things she says, it is forgiven because she has been beaten down and she has risen to the top. America loves an underdog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fight till the last gasp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fight till the last gasp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24522]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is well ended, if the suit be won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51217]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is well ended, if the suit be won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not worlds on worlds, in phalanx deep, Need we to prove a God is here;  The daisy, fresh from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not worlds on worlds, in phalanx deep, Need we to prove a God is here;  The daisy, fresh from nature's sleep,   Tells of His hand in lines as clear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63365]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm pushing hard for affordable housing. I'm encouraging developers to bring in projects at a lower cost to locals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm pushing hard for affordable housing. I'm encouraging developers to bring in projects at a lower cost to locals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55864]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What he has is of no more use to the miser than that which he has not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51644]]></link><description><![CDATA[What he has is of no more use to the miser than that which he has not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On top of this, it's a good idea to take up references. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36402]]></link><description><![CDATA[On top of this, it's a good idea to take up references.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57020]]></link><description><![CDATA[General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever longs for paradise forgets his desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever longs for paradise forgets his desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46306]]></link><description><![CDATA[It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9627]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are faults we would fain pardon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50359]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are faults we would fain pardon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rhine! the Rhine! a blessing on the Rhine! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rhine! the Rhine! a blessing on the Rhine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37335]]></link><description><![CDATA[But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the elder. . . . "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13004]]></link><description><![CDATA["Wery good power o' suction, Sammy," said Mr. Weller the elder. . . . "You'd ha' made an uncommon fine oyster, Sammy, if you'd been born in that station o' life."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50713]]></link><description><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever hatred smiles, love lies powerless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever hatred smiles, love lies powerless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air  Or numbly cling and shiver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3563]]></link><description><![CDATA[What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air  Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone!   How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare,    As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills     The bowl between me and those distant hills,      And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3563</guid></item></channel></rss>