<?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[The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12630]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16287]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8347]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16390]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we attribute foreknowledge to God, we mean that all things always were, and perpetually remain, under his eyes, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7558]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we attribute foreknowledge to God, we mean that all things always were, and perpetually remain, under his eyes, so that to his knowledge there is nothing future or past, but all things are present. And they are present in such a way that he not only conceives them through ideas, as we have before us those things which our minds remember, but he truly looks upon them and discerns them as things placed before him. And this foreknowledge is extended throughout the universe to every creature. We call predestination God's eternal decree, by which he determined with himself what he willed to become of each man. For all are not created in equal condition; rather, eternal life is foreordained for some, eternal damnation for others. Therefore, as any man has been created to one or the other of these ends, we speak of him as predestined to life or death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playingyour proper role. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playingyour proper role.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't know what you can get away with until you try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21651]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't know what you can get away with until you try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as in almost all science. . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as in almost all science. . . . The fate of human civilization will depend on whether the rockets of the future carry the astronomer's telescope or a hydrogen bomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46992]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27916]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19504]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38829]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was so fair that they called him the lady of Christ's College.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none going back again. [Lat., Vestigia terrent  Omnia te adversum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none going back again. [Lat., Vestigia terrent  Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything yields to diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything yields to diligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not what we give, but what we share,-- For the gift without the giver is bare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not what we give, but what we share,-- For the gift without the giver is bare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet this climate of peace needs the help of the US and the international community: For without sustained pressure on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet this climate of peace needs the help of the US and the international community: For without sustained pressure on the Israeli government to sit down and negotiate, Israel will only bolster those within Palestinian society who do not share the majority's desire for peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833  It seems to be an opinion pretty generally prevalent, that kindness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833  It seems to be an opinion pretty generally prevalent, that kindness and sweetness of temper; sympathizing, benevolent, and generous affections; attention to what in the world's estimation are the domestic, relative, and social duties; and, above all, a life of general activity and usefulness, may well be allowed, in our imperfect state, to make up for the defect of what, in strict propriety of speech, is termed religion. Many, indeed, will unreservedly declare, and more will hint, the opinion that the difference between the qualities above mentioned and religion, is rather a verbal or logical, than a real and essential difference; for in truth, what are they but religion in substance if not in name? Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to control the appetites, and to smooth the asperities of man; to make us compassionate and kind, and forgiving one to another; to make us good husbands, good fathers, good friends; and to render us active and useful in the discharge of the relative social and civil duties? We do not deny that, in the general mass of society, and particularly in the lower orders, such conduct and tempers can not be diffused and maintained by any other medium than that of religion. But if the end be effected, surely it is only an unnecessary refinement to dispute about the means. It is even to forget your own principles; and to refuse its just place to solid, practical virtue, while you assign too high a value to speculative opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stars lead me up to heaven, and I hope I'm there with you, for you are a star in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stars lead me up to heaven, and I hope I'm there with you, for you are a star in my twinkling eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would live to study, and not study to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25393]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would live to study, and not study to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world goes whispering to its own, "This anguish pierces to the bone;"  And tender friends go sighing round, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world goes whispering to its own, "This anguish pierces to the bone;"  And tender friends go sighing round,   "What love can ever cure this wound?"    My days go on, my days go on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14706]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer  In the earthen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48069]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer  In the earthen vessel, holding treasure,   But the main thing is, does it hold good measure    Heaven soon sets right all other matters!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever limits us, we call Fate ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever limits us, we call Fate]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. •Thomas Hobbes   Depend on no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. •Thomas Hobbes   Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others. •Johann Kaspar Lavater  It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. •Fred Allen   We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62798]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61766]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The Church has always found it easier to fulfill her priestly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The Church has always found it easier to fulfill her priestly than her prophetic role. The temptation to institutionalism is always with us, and who will profess himself guiltless? We reduce Christianity to the service of an institution, the Church, for this enables us to be active in what is fondly called "the work of the Lord," while at the same time failing to grapple with the fundamental problem for all Christians, that of winning our generation for Christ. In our little circle of like-minded people we condemn outsiders because they do not come in. Perhaps we even make half-hearted attempts to get them to come in. And then we snuggle down again in the warmth of our fellowship, comforted that we have done all that might reasonably be expected of men in our situation. Fortified with this consolation we concentrate on keeping the institution, the Church, running as it should.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very pessimistic. And I don't see him back. The closer we get to June 1, you know, I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30870]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very pessimistic. And I don't see him back. The closer we get to June 1, you know, I don't think he'll be with us. I'll be watching someone else for the Titans. That's not what we intended, but it looks like that's the way it's going to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[it is much safer to obey than to rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24483]]></link><description><![CDATA[it is much safer to obey than to rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841   The [Roman] imperial coinage (which was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841   The [Roman] imperial coinage (which was regularly used as a propaganda medium... is full of the characteristic motifs of Advent and Epiphany, celebrating the blessings which the manifestation of each successive divine emperor was to bring to a waiting world. Among the adulatory formulas with which the emperor was acclaimed, Prof. Ethelbert Stauffer mentions, as going back to the first century, "Hail, Victory, Lord of the earth, Invincible, Power, Glory, Honour, Peace, Security, Holy, Blessed, Unequalled, Great, Thou alone worthy art, Worthy is he to inherit the Kingdom, Come, come, do not delay, Come again" (p. 155) [in Christ and the Caesars]. Indeed, one has only to read Psalm lxxii, in Latin, in the official language of the empire, to see that it is largely the same formal language which is used alike in the Forum for the advent of the emperor, and in the catacombs for the celebration of the "Epiphany of Christ" (p. 251). Who was worthy to ascend the throne of the universe and direct the course of history? Caesar, or Jesus?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can be an ACE: Attitude + Commitment = Excellence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can be an ACE: Attitude + Commitment = Excellence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you're not at your best, but all that matters is two points. This was a perfect example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you're not at your best, but all that matters is two points. This was a perfect example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give this heavy weight from off my head And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,  The pride of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give this heavy weight from off my head And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,  The pride of kingly sway from out my heart.   With mine own tears I wash away my balm,    With mine own hands I give away my crown,     With mine own tongue deny my sacred state,      With mine own breath release all duty's rites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A DEEP-SWORN VOWOthers because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine.Yet always when I look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A DEEP-SWORN VOWOthers because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine.Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4289]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5112]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5112</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[He that pitties another, remembers himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49385]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that pitties another, remembers himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/681</guid></item></channel></rss>