<?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[Knowledge is power if you know about the right person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is power if you know about the right person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29552]]></link><description><![CDATA[If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25406</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/7222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  Now since our eternal state is as certainly ours, as our present state; since we are as certainly to live for ever, as we now live at all; it is plain, that we cannot judge of the value of any particular time, as to us, but by comparing it to that eternal duration, for which we are created.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a tough team tonight. They had nine and nine on each side of the ball coming back and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40365]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a tough team tonight. They had nine and nine on each side of the ball coming back and were ready to play. Our kids kept on fighting though.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. -Bill Cosby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. -Bill Cosby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never propose to thy self such a God, as thou wert not bound to imitate: Thou mistakest God, if thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never propose to thy self such a God, as thou wert not bound to imitate: Thou mistakest God, if thou make him to be any such thing, or make him to do any such thing, as thou in thy proportion shouldst not be, or shouldst not do. And shouldst thou curse any man that had never offended, never transgrest, never trespass thee? Can God have done so? Will God curse man, before man have sinned?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17127]]></link><description><![CDATA[A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody takes steps in the wrong direction. Everybody has the opportunity to take steps in the right direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody takes steps in the wrong direction. Everybody has the opportunity to take steps in the right direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For blocks are better cleft with wedges, Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges,  And dullest nonsense has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44607]]></link><description><![CDATA[For blocks are better cleft with wedges, Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges,  And dullest nonsense has been found   By some to be the most profound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that goeth farre hath many encounters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49343]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that goeth farre hath many encounters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year,  A handsome house to lodge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year,  A handsome house to lodge a friend,   A river at my garden's end,    A terrace walk, and half a rood     Of land, set out to plant a wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Conservative Party agenda is now renegotiation on the route to withdrawal from Europe, by contrast with a Labour agenda ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Conservative Party agenda is now renegotiation on the route to withdrawal from Europe, by contrast with a Labour agenda for increased trade, prosperity and opportunity across the EU.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19124]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60670]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56257]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27867]]></link><description><![CDATA[A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, Microsoft has behaved like the clear-cutters of the computer software industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34576]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, Microsoft has behaved like the clear-cutters of the computer software industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said to the brown, brown thrush: "Hush, hush!  Through the wood's full strains I hear   Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said to the brown, brown thrush: "Hush, hush!  Through the wood's full strains I hear   Thy monotone deep and clear,    Like a sound amid sounds most fine."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oftfalling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oftfalling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy,  Whose trust, ever childlike, no cares could destroy,  Be there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy,  Whose trust, ever childlike, no cares could destroy,  Be there at our waking, and give us, we pray,  Your bliss in our hearts, Lord, at the break of the day.  Lord of all eagerness, Lord of all faith,  Whose strong hands were skilled at the plane and the lathe,  Be there at our labors, and give us, we pray,  Your strength in our hearts, Lord, at the noon of the day.  Lord of all kindliness, Lord of all grace,  Your hands swift to welcome, your arms to embrace,  Be there at our homing, and give us, we pray,  Your love in our hearts, Lord, at the eve of the day.  Lord of all gentleness, Lord of all calm,  Whose voice is contentment, whose presence is balm,  Be there at our sleeping, and give us, we pray,  Your peace in our hearts, Lord, at the end of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucia Pinochet is currently in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody at Dulles International Airport, pending resolution of her immigration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lucia Pinochet is currently in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody at Dulles International Airport, pending resolution of her immigration status.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be happy while y'er leevin, For y'er a lang time deid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be happy while y'er leevin, For y'er a lang time deid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of yourself. [Lat., Quid rides?]  Mutato ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of yourself. [Lat., Quid rides?]  Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presence is more than just being there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presence is more than just being there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should banded unions persecute Opinions, and induce a time  When single thought is civil crime,   And individual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should banded unions persecute Opinions, and induce a time  When single thought is civil crime,   And individual freedom mute,    . . . .     Then waft me from the harbour's mouth,      Wild wind, I seek a warmer sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that Scripps wants to be here, and we hope that Scripps is successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30910]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that Scripps wants to be here, and we hope that Scripps is successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32561]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes all sorts to make a world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60446]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes all sorts to make a world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continued from yesterday:  The result of all this is that the Christian is a free man. It is here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continued from yesterday:  The result of all this is that the Christian is a free man. It is here to be observed that the term "freedom" is ambiguous in common usage. It is sometimes used to imply that a man can do just as he likes, undetermined by any external force. To this the determinist replies that as a matter of fact this freedom is so limited by the laws which condition man's empirical existence as to be illusory. The rejoinder from the advocates of free will is that no external force can determine a man's moral conduct (and with mere automatism we are not concerned), unless it is presented in consciousness, and that in being so presented it becomes a desire, a temptation, or a motive. In suffering himself to be determined by these, the man is not submitting to external control, but to something which he has already made a part of himself, for good or ill. When, however, we have said that, we are faced with a further problem. Not all that is desired is desirable, and in being moved by my immediate desire I may be balking myself of that ultimate satisfaction which is the real object of all effort. If that is so, then to "do as I like" may well be no freedom at all. There is a law of our being which forbids satisfaction to be found along that line, as it is written, "He gave them their desire, and sent leanness into their souls." (Ps. 106:15) (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45493]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility!  And the Devil did grin, for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20019]]></link><description><![CDATA[He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility!  And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin   Is pride that apes humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59162]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59162</guid></item></channel></rss>