<?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[No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love--except the housewife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19899]]></link><description><![CDATA[No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love--except the housewife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass in a broken voice, "it was the salmon." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61680]]></link><description><![CDATA["It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass in a broken voice, "it was the salmon."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Value of a man depends upon his courage; his veracity depends upon his self-respect and his chastity depends upon his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Value of a man depends upon his courage; his veracity depends upon his self-respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of honor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64904]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Briefly, that teaching contains the following elements: (1) There is one living and true God (i.9); (2) Idolatry is sinful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Briefly, that teaching contains the following elements: (1) There is one living and true God (i.9); (2) Idolatry is sinful and must be forsaken (i.9); (3) The wrath of God is ready to be revealed against the heathen for their impurity (iv.6), and against the Jews for their rejection of Christ and their opposition to the Gospel (ii.15,16); (4) The judgment will come suddenly and unexpectedly (v.2,3); (5) Jesus, the Son of God (i.1O), given over to death (v.10), and raised from the dead (iv.14), is the Saviour from the wrath of God (i.10); (6) The Kingdom of Jesus is now set up and all men are invited to enter it (ii.12); (7) Those who believe and turn to God are now expecting the coming of the Savior who will return from Heaven to receive them (i.10; iv.15-17); (8) Meanwhile, their life must be pure (iv.1-8), useful (iv.11-12), and watchful (v.14-8); (9) To that end, God has given them His Holy Spirit (iv.8; v.19). (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;  On eagles' wings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54748]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;  On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,   While virtuous actions are but borne to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men say, "How are we to act, what are we to teach our children, now that we are no longer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men say, "How are we to act, what are we to teach our children, now that we are no longer Christians?" You see, gentlemen, how I would answer that question. You are deceived in thinking that the morality of your father was based on Christianity. On the contrary, Christianity presupposed it. That morality stands exactly where it did; its basis has not been withdrawn, for, in a sense, it never had a basis. The ultimate ethical injunctions have always been premises, never conclusions. Kant was perfectly right on that point at least, the imperative is categorical. Unless the ethical is assumed from the outset, no argument will bring you to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field,  Still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field,  Still on their dinner turn--   Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home,    And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40804]]></link><description><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification of a better career option and higher salary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64377]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playing with those guys helped me with my confidence. It's a different setting, but it's an opportunity to practice with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playing with those guys helped me with my confidence. It's a different setting, but it's an opportunity to practice with and against some great players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/513]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6113]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is love; in no case is it logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is love; in no case is it logic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21504</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[The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summer's dead,  And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summer's dead,  And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries   For what has been and is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44454]]></link><description><![CDATA[As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27317]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True and genuine worship is when man, through his spirit attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7554]]></link><description><![CDATA[True and genuine worship is when man, through his spirit attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to come to a certain place; it is not to go through a certain ritual or liturgy; it is not even to bring certain gifts. True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4205]]></link><description><![CDATA[You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength  In furthest striving action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/506]]></link><description><![CDATA[For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength  In furthest striving action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2124]]></link><description><![CDATA[The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise;  Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise;  Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade,   Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread,    Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display,     To guard their beauties from the sunny ray;      Or sweating slaves support the shady load,       When eastern monarchs show their state abroad;        Britain in winter only knows its aid,         To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48074]]></link><description><![CDATA[There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town ? as a biofuel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33365]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town ? as a biofuel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53827]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take, O, take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take, O, take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn: But my kisses bring again, bring again; Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain. -Measure for Measure. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key of the fields (street). [Fr., La clef des champs.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52462]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key of the fields (street). [Fr., La clef des champs.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning mountaines, in the evening fountaines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49549]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning mountaines, in the evening fountaines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4073]]></link><description><![CDATA[These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55320]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54846]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions,  Setting endeavor in continual motion;   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions,  Setting endeavor in continual motion;   To which is fixed as an aim or butt    Obedience; for so work the honeybees,     Creatures that by a rule in nature teach      The act of order to a peopled kingdom.       They have a king, and officers of sorts,        Where some like magistrates correct at home,         Others like merchants venture trade abroad,          Others like soldiers armed in their stings           Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds,            Which pillage they with merry march bring home             To the tent-royal of their emperor,              Who, busied in his majesties, surveys               The singing masons building roofs of gold,                The civil citizens kneading up the honey,                 The poor mechanic porters crowding in                  Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,                   The sad-eyed justice with his surly hum                    Delivering o'er to executors pale                     The lazy yawning drone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better fed than taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better fed than taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/587</guid></item></channel></rss>