<?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[He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books;  And ruin half an author's graces  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46649]]></link><description><![CDATA[He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books;  And ruin half an author's graces   By plucking bon-mots from their places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1188]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  As a good Christian should consider every place as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  As a good Christian should consider every place as holy, because God is there, so he should look upon every part of his life as a matter of holiness, because it is offered unto God. The profession of a clergyman is a holy profession, because it is a ministration in holy things, an attendance at the alter. But worldly business is to be made holy unto the Lord, by being done as a service unto Him, and in conformity to His Divine will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the bitter waves of woe, Beaten and tossed about  By the sullen winds which blow   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57246]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the bitter waves of woe, Beaten and tossed about  By the sullen winds which blow   From the desolate shores of doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're thrilled. To have Charles Schwab take the bold step of being one of our original dual-listed companies and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30800]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're thrilled. To have Charles Schwab take the bold step of being one of our original dual-listed companies and to evaluate both markets on their merits and choose to list solely on Nasdaq is a major validation of the Nasdaq market model.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They got a good hockey team over there and they battle hard every night. It's nice to get an extra ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33514]]></link><description><![CDATA[They got a good hockey team over there and they battle hard every night. It's nice to get an extra point on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9465]]></link><description><![CDATA[This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This bold bad man. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56034]]></link><description><![CDATA[This bold bad man. -King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47959]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witness to hum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54829]]></link><description><![CDATA[If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20652]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little sister of the Poor . . . .  The Poor, and their concerns, she has   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little sister of the Poor . . . .  The Poor, and their concerns, she has   Monopolized, because of which    It falls to me to labor as     A Little Brother of the Rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9498]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Davidson is an aggressive, tough team to play. They are a threat everywhere. We're pleased to get the win. Jasmine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Davidson is an aggressive, tough team to play. They are a threat everywhere. We're pleased to get the win. Jasmine Byrd started hot as fire and that gave us confidence. We made some little adjustments in the second half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46190]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7582]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16698]]></link><description><![CDATA[No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet. (the Devil and Shakespeare.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66020]]></link><description><![CDATA[You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   When law and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   When law and sin ceased to be distinguished in Israel, compassion induced Him to appoint judges again. If these are gifted with heroic qualities, to vanquish the oppressors of Israel, it is nevertheless not this heroism that forms their principal characteristic. That consists in judging. They restore... the authority of the law. For this reason, God raises up judges, not princes. The title sets forth both their work and the occasion of their appointment. Israel is free and powerful when its law is observed throughout the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christ came... in a purpose, ... to manifest himself in the Christian Religion, to all the nations of the world; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ came... in a purpose, ... to manifest himself in the Christian Religion, to all the nations of the world; and therefore, says David, The Lord reigneth, let the Islands rejoice -- the Islands who by reason of their situation, provision, and trading have most means of conveying Christ Jesus over the world. He hath carried us up to heaven & set us at the right hand of God, & shall not we endeavour to carry him to those nations, who have not yet heard of his name? Shall we still brag that we have brought our clothes, and our hatchets, and our knives, and bread to this and this value and estimation amongst those poor ignorant Souls, and shall we never glory that we have brought the name, and Religion of Christ Jesus in estimation amongst them? Shall we stay till other nations have planted a false Christ among them? And then either continue in our sloth, or take more pains in rooting out a false Christ than would have planted the true?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53552]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come on high and are contained in the sacred writings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  God hath work to do in this world; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority. It is not enough that we be just, that we be righteous, and walk with God in holiness; but we must also serve our generation, as David did before he fell asleep. God hath a work to do; and not to help Him is to oppose Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28035]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27703]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60353]]></link><description><![CDATA[People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the gods are dead-- Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt,  And doubt is brother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12755]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the gods are dead-- Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt,  And doubt is brother devil to Despair!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40924]]></link><description><![CDATA[I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where'er his fancy bids him roam, In ev'ry Inn he finds a home--  . . . .   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where'er his fancy bids him roam, In ev'ry Inn he finds a home--  . . . .   Will not an Inn his cares beguile,    Where on each face he sees a smile?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You tell your doctor, that y' are ill And what does he, but write a bill,  Of which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26710]]></link><description><![CDATA[You tell your doctor, that y' are ill And what does he, but write a bill,  Of which you need not read one letter,   The worse the scrawl, the dose the better.    For if you knew but what you take,     Though you recover, he must break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a surprising Divisional Playoff weekend, I anticipate more excitement and for two more riveting games to be played before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30935]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a surprising Divisional Playoff weekend, I anticipate more excitement and for two more riveting games to be played before the Super Bowl contenders are decided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, and Pete Fleming, martyrs, Equador, 1956  Oh, the fullness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, and Pete Fleming, martyrs, Equador, 1956  Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth! I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him. Mayhap in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning. But if not, if only I may see Him, touch His garments, smile into His eyes -- ah then, not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47623]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25667]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19599]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should eat to live, not live to eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17593]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should eat to live, not live to eat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My response to them is that?s looking backwards, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38958]]></link><description><![CDATA[My response to them is that?s looking backwards,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13512]]></link><description><![CDATA[A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13512</guid></item></channel></rss>