<?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![CDATA[Given, not lent, And not withdrawn, once sent, This Infant of mankind, this One, Is still the little welcome Son. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given, not lent, And not withdrawn, once sent, This Infant of mankind, this One, Is still the little welcome Son. New every year, New-born and newly dear, He comes with tidings and a song, The ages long, the ages long. Even as the cold  Keen winter grows not old, As childhood is so fresh, forseen, And spring in the familiar green. Sudden as sweet Come the expected feet. All joy is young, and new all art, And He, too, whom we have by heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After 30 years of devastation, we are starting from nothing and any move such as this helps the reconstruction of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40051]]></link><description><![CDATA[After 30 years of devastation, we are starting from nothing and any move such as this helps the reconstruction of Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was shocked; I couldnÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢t believe what I was seeing, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31430]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was shocked; I couldnÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢t believe what I was seeing,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52714]]></link><description><![CDATA[QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5999]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42854]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64593]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9811]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clear conscience is a soft pillow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is thought rare Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know  That what was worn some twenty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is thought rare Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know  That what was worn some twenty years ago   Comes into grace again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 For the power Thou hast given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen: For the strong sense I have that this is not my home: For my restless heart which nothing finite can satisfy:  I give Thee thanks, O God. For the invasion of my soul by Thy Holy Spirit: For all human love and goodness that speak to me of Thee: For the fullness of Thy glory outpoured in Jesus Christ  I give Thee thanks, O God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47465]]></link><description><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief  In war and one the king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief  In war and one the king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that an essential condition for crises is to be found in the existence of a highly developed system ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47416]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that an essential condition for crises is to be found in the existence of a highly developed system of communications and the spreading of a homogenous mentality over vast areas.But when the hour and the right material are at hand, the contagion spreads with the speed of electricity over hundreds of miles, and affects the most diverse populations, which hardly know each other. The message flies through the air and they all suddenly agree on that one issue, if only a sulky admission that "there's got to be a change.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45588]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65413]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past,  A fifth shall close the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past,  A fifth shall close the Drama with the day;   Time's noblest offspring is the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of so knowing Christ that they have Him in them saving them, they lie wasting themselves in soul-sickening self-examination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of so knowing Christ that they have Him in them saving them, they lie wasting themselves in soul-sickening self-examination as to whether they are believers, whether they are really trusting in the Atonement, whether they are truly sorry for their sins -- the way to madness of the brain and despair of the heart... Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said, Do it! or once abstained because He said, Do not do it! It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8128</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[Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he does have that potential to be a good enough player on a team that's trying to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36117]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he does have that potential to be a good enough player on a team that's trying to get to the next level. Even if he is, realistically, he's not going to be there in the next year. It's going to take a couple years for him to develop into that. Garnett, as great as he is, is still going to take a lot of shots on the perimeter. The point guard is even more critical on a team without a dominant post presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian (i.e. from the Netherlands-Batavia.) [Lat., O crassum ingenium. Suspicor fuisse Batavum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian (i.e. from the Netherlands-Batavia.) [Lat., O crassum ingenium. Suspicor fuisse Batavum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10034]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficulties that show what men are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12259]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficulties that show what men are]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? Go to God. Do you want peace to brood over your families? If you do, live your religion, and the very peace of God will dwell and abide with you, for that is where peace comes from, and it doesn't dwell anywhere else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soda fountain will be open all evening long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soda fountain will be open all evening long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Divell divides the world between Atheisme and Superstition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Divell divides the world between Atheisme and Superstition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to run faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28251]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to run faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought we'd try something a little bit different. But also, in deference to our fans that do drive quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38496]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought we'd try something a little bit different. But also, in deference to our fans that do drive quite a ways, it gives them a chance to get here and get home an hour earlier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60313]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study the past, if you would divine the future.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study the past, if you would divine the future.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your voice dries up if you don't use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your voice dries up if you don't use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[At Bacchus, which has 140 seats in its main dining room,] the booths and the corners are the most requested ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31381]]></link><description><![CDATA[[At Bacchus, which has 140 seats in its main dining room,] the booths and the corners are the most requested tables, ... If you're four persons as opposed to two, my first option would be to give it to four. But if I'm not busy I'll accommodate two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27797]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers;  Body and brain we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58129]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers;  Body and brain we were sound as they,   But the prizes were not ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20324]]></link><description><![CDATA[…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["For if I wait," said she, "Till time for roses be,--  For the moss-rose and the musk-rose,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54429]]></link><description><![CDATA["For if I wait," said she, "Till time for roses be,--  For the moss-rose and the musk-rose,   Maiden-blush and royal-dusk rose,--    "What glory then for me     In such a company?--      Roses plenty, roses plenty       And one nightingale for twenty?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Garner came out not real strong. But he pitched well throughout. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Garner came out not real strong. But he pitched well throughout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here, here, and everywhere, he leaves and takes, Dexterity so obeying appetite  That what he will he does, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here, here, and everywhere, he leaves and takes, Dexterity so obeying appetite  That what he will he does, and does so much   That proof is called impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37025</guid></item></channel></rss>