<?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[Lynn Swann respects the historic legacy of labor in Pennsylvania. Our message is simple: roll back the Rendell tax hikes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lynn Swann respects the historic legacy of labor in Pennsylvania. Our message is simple: roll back the Rendell tax hikes, help families place their children in better-performing schools, and focus on programs to bring higher-paying jobs to Pennsylvania and put Pennsylvania back on the right track.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it "freedom," but in the final analysis "freedom" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it "freedom," but in the final analysis "freedom" is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...to point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59184]]></link><description><![CDATA[...to point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30382]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a Northern California earthquake. Earthquakes greater than magnitude 7 are going to cause intense shaking over a large area ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â everyone needs to be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who believes that we can take the entire Internet and water it down so that it's good for only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who believes that we can take the entire Internet and water it down so that it's good for only children is kidding themselves,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17854]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the GrasshopperAn Ass having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the GrasshopperAn Ass having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on to give them such beautiful voices. They replied, The dew. The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19700]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The headline is very misleading on this one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The headline is very misleading on this one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't find candy bars in vending machines in our schools anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40764]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't find candy bars in vending machines in our schools anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is fraud to conceal fraud ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16628]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is fraud to conceal fraud]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58169</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[Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21238]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lacked a bit of freshness to clock a better time. But overall, it's satisfactory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31810]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lacked a bit of freshness to clock a better time. But overall, it's satisfactory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come not within the measure of my wrath. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come not within the measure of my wrath. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31024]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it would do OK, but we weren't sure. We didn't have a crystal ball, and we didn't say, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it would do OK, but we weren't sure. We didn't have a crystal ball, and we didn't say, 'Oh yeah, it's a smash.' We liked the song but didn't know if it would be the best to debut the album with. But there is something special about the song. People caught onto it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a huge confidence-builder for our girls. Lauren was so smooth out there today, and she showed a tremendous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33410]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a huge confidence-builder for our girls. Lauren was so smooth out there today, and she showed a tremendous amount of poise for a ninth-grader. There were some rough spots, but this gives us something to build on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. - The Oracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. - The Oracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48914]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ran there and when I got there, there were four or five boats looking in the water. I didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37653]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ran there and when I got there, there were four or five boats looking in the water. I didn't see anybody that looked like survivors. I didn't see anybody at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our food service director has testified at state and federal hearings concerning food service nutrition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our food service director has testified at state and federal hearings concerning food service nutrition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22658]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have always been at daggers-drawing, And one another clapper-clawing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have always been at daggers-drawing, And one another clapper-clawing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athens--these seven cities contend as to being the birthplace of the illustrious Homer. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athens--these seven cities contend as to being the birthplace of the illustrious Homer. [Lat., Smyrna, Rhodos, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenae,  Hae septem certant de stirpe insignis Homeri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. It's the same with the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16443]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16443</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[An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17790]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were together almost every day this summer. Between weightlifting and practices and the camps, we all really got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39785]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were together almost every day this summer. Between weightlifting and practices and the camps, we all really got to know each other and become good friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is love made visible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is love made visible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  During the last year or so, I have come to appreciate the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  During the last year or so, I have come to appreciate the "worldliness" of Christianity as never before. The Christian is not a homo religiosus but a man, pure and simple, just as Jesus became man... It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to believe. One must abandon every attempt to make something of oneself, whether it be a saint, a converted sinner, a churchman, a righteous man, or an unrighteous one, a sick man or a healthy one... This is what I mean by worldliness -- taking life in one's stride, with all its duties and problems, its successes and failures, its experiences and helplessness... How can success make us arrogant or failure lead us astray, when we participate in the sufferings of God by living in this world?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None but yourself who are your greatest foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13856]]></link><description><![CDATA[None but yourself who are your greatest foe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13856</guid></item></channel></rss>