<?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[This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53112]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of others. [Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  It is clear that he does not pray, who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To show the world what long experience gains, Requires not courage, though it calls for pains;  But at life's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14674]]></link><description><![CDATA[To show the world what long experience gains, Requires not courage, though it calls for pains;  But at life's outset to inform mankind   Is a bold effort of a valiant mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It cometh into court and pleads the cause Of creatures dumb and unknown to the laws;  And this shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4119]]></link><description><![CDATA[It cometh into court and pleads the cause Of creatures dumb and unknown to the laws;  And this shall make, in every Christian clime,   The bell of Atri famous for all time.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4119</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[They're attractive, quality-of-life places and have a somewhat more diverse economic base. It's close to Chicago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38872]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're attractive, quality-of-life places and have a somewhat more diverse economic base. It's close to Chicago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem but always what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem but always what you see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 Lord, it belongs not to my care,  Whether I die or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 Lord, it belongs not to my care,  Whether I die or live; To love and serve Thee is my share,  And this Thy grace must give. If life be long I will be glad,  That I may long obey; If short--yet why should I be sad  To soar to endless day? Christ leads me through no darker rooms  Than He went through before; He that unto God's kingdom comes,  Must enter by this door. Come, Lord, when grace has made me meet  Thy blessed face to see; For if Thy work on earth be sweet,  What will Thy glory be! Then shall I end my sad complaints,  And weary, sinful days; And join with the triumphant saints,  To sing Jehovah's praise. My knowledge of that life is small,  The eye of faith is dim; But 'tis enough that Christ knows all,  And I shall be with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53877]]></link><description><![CDATA[To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motley 's the only wear. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motley 's the only wear. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60735]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55378]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16215]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite 'em,   And so proceed ad infinitum.    Thus every poet in his kind     Is bit by him that comes behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to go in, keep my mouth shut and just listen to the guys, ... I have to earn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to go in, keep my mouth shut and just listen to the guys, ... I have to earn the respect of my teammates and coaches, and I'm going to do whatever it takes to earn that respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27295]]></link><description><![CDATA[He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63464]]></link><description><![CDATA[A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great library contains the diary of the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24767]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great library contains the diary of the human race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like everybody points you to somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31154]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like everybody points you to somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To discover joy is to return to a state of oneness with the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44910]]></link><description><![CDATA[To discover joy is to return to a state of oneness with the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/688]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20201]]></link><description><![CDATA[American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30065]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A play is fiction-and fiction is fact distilled into truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34298]]></link><description><![CDATA[A play is fiction-and fiction is fact distilled into truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus   For some years now I have read through the Bible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus   For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is more important than the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59843]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is more important than the facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The No. 1 thing the victim wants is for this to be over with. For some victims the process, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The No. 1 thing the victim wants is for this to be over with. For some victims the process, it's months later (and) you're getting this call, and you've got to show up again. It's all going to come back up again, and you feel that you've managed to forget about it you're sleeping through the night the last thing you want is to bring this all back up again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1289]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the things we're trying to persuade kids to do is not to give out personal details online, don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34701]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the things we're trying to persuade kids to do is not to give out personal details online, don't advertise where they are and who they are. The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603   [He said:] that our sanctification did not depend upon our changing our works, but upon our doing that for God' s sake which commonly we do for our own; that it was lamentable to see how many people mistook the means for the end, addicting themselves to certain works, which they performed very imperfectly, by reason of their human or selfish regards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration . . . because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65568]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes. I think I'm going to stay. Everything is nice here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes. I think I'm going to stay. Everything is nice here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small Latin, and less Greek. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small Latin, and less Greek.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25127</guid></item></channel></rss>