<?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[Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1132]]></link><description><![CDATA[For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54185]]></link><description><![CDATA[The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46359]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's ok for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/646]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's ok for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad moods become bad days, which become bad weeks, which become bad months and years. Before you know it, you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad moods become bad days, which become bad weeks, which become bad months and years. Before you know it, you're living an unhappy life and you probably think this is normal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real death of America will come when everyone is alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is too much reality for a Friday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53044]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is too much reality for a Friday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the movies and the movies are us ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33113]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the movies and the movies are us]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11436]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not going to bypass them because of a small inconvenience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32925]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not going to bypass them because of a small inconvenience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wrong to suppose that for Paul faith is a meritorious act on man's part, which wins salvation, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7859]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wrong to suppose that for Paul faith is a meritorious act on man's part, which wins salvation, or even, in a more modern way of speech, a creative moral principle in itself. Paul does not, in fact, speak (when he is using the language strictly) of "justification by faith", but of "justification by grace through faith," or "on the grounds of faith." This is not mere verbal subtlety. It means that the "righteousness of God" becomes ours, not by the assertion of the individual will as such, but by the willingness to let God work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17964]]></link><description><![CDATA[When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentlemen do not read each other's mail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60869]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53280]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thrustelcok made eek hir lay, The wode dove upon the spray  She sang ful loude and cleere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thrustelcok made eek hir lay, The wode dove upon the spray  She sang ful loude and cleere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9989]]></link><description><![CDATA[The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sports do not build character. They reveal it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sports do not build character. They reveal it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children, behold the Chimpanzee; He sits on the ancestral tree  From which we sprang in ages gone.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children, behold the Chimpanzee; He sits on the ancestral tree  From which we sprang in ages gone.   I'm glad we sprang: had we held on,    We might, for aught that I can say,     Be horrid Chimpanzees to-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. -Ed Asner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. -Ed Asner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60405]]></link><description><![CDATA[One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether it's one dollar from a kid, or five, 10 or 20 dollars from an adult, it all adds up, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether it's one dollar from a kid, or five, 10 or 20 dollars from an adult, it all adds up,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait...The truth is, there are only two things in life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait...The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad that they made the right choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29196]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad that they made the right choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why? Is this guy afraid of me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why? Is this guy afraid of me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an incredible serve, ... It's not a function of how fast it is. The trajectory is the main issue. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an incredible serve, ... It's not a function of how fast it is. The trajectory is the main issue. You're lunging, but then it's up. You're sort of diving, but then you can't reach it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  God is none other than the Saviour of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  God is none other than the Saviour of our wretchedness. So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities... Those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified him, but have glorified themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2597]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other. -Charles De Gaulle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52288]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those that God loves, do not live long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those that God loves, do not live long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was terrible out there. I felt bad for the girls. They'd kick the ball and it would only go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42131]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was terrible out there. I felt bad for the girls. They'd kick the ball and it would only go about six inches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407   We assemble not in the church to pass away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407   We assemble not in the church to pass away the time, but to gain some great benefit for our souls. If therefore we depart without profit, our zeal in frequenting the church will prove our condemnation. That so great a judgment comes not upon you, when ye go hence ponder the things ye have heard, and exercise yourselves in confirming our instruction -- friend with friend, fathers with their children, masters with their slaves -- so that, when ye return hither and hear from us the same counsels, ye may not be ashamed, but rejoice and be glad in the conviction that ye have put into practice the greater part of our exhortation. Not only must we meditate upon these things here -- for this short exhortation sufficeth not to eradicate the evil -- but at home let the husband be reminded of them by the wife, and the wife by the husband, and let an emulation obtain in families to the fulfilment of the divine law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27477]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4016]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam lit up every room she was in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sam lit up every room she was in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be very expensive. We still have a lot of fundraising to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39288]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be very expensive. We still have a lot of fundraising to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13526]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13526</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></channel></rss>