<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't have my control. The sinker was going too wide. I wanted to keep the ball down, so if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't have my control. The sinker was going too wide. I wanted to keep the ball down, so if they made contact, they keep the ball in the ballpark. That lineup doesn't have any weak spots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29801]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spend just as much time on special teams as we do offense and defense. That can make a difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40418]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spend just as much time on special teams as we do offense and defense. That can make a difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself -- and then a couple of more feet, just to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself -- and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's unbelievable. We're just in shock, as much shock as we were in with Gary Walberg. No one expected this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30280]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's unbelievable. We're just in shock, as much shock as we were in with Gary Walberg. No one expected this to happen. It's just nine months after Gary's passing. (Loudon) had big plans for the department, shared his vision with us. It's been a while since we had a full complement of officers. It's unfortunate. He was a real nice guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that labours and thrives spins gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that labours and thrives spins gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either this wallpaper goes, or I do! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either this wallpaper goes, or I do!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's in a lot better shape than when we found it. The person coming in is going to have players ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32364]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's in a lot better shape than when we found it. The person coming in is going to have players in every class. We lacked that veteran maturity and you saw that raise its head in close games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44701]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. -Marcus Aurelius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The alligator's popular. We're the only Cajun booth out here, and people like Cajun food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The alligator's popular. We're the only Cajun booth out here, and people like Cajun food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By printing cases on-line, these printers provide a dependable means to substantially reduce packaging operating costs by eliminating the need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33024]]></link><description><![CDATA[By printing cases on-line, these printers provide a dependable means to substantially reduce packaging operating costs by eliminating the need for preprinted cases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small heart hath small desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49077]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small heart hath small desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One kiss breaches the distance between friendship and love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16847]]></link><description><![CDATA[One kiss breaches the distance between friendship and love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our defense just flat got after them. They just played special, hard-nosed, consistent football. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our defense just flat got after them. They just played special, hard-nosed, consistent football.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man perfect to the finger tips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50179]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man perfect to the finger tips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912  Let us not inquire into the affairs of others that concern us not, but be busied within ourselves and our own spheres; ever remembering that to pry into the actions or interests of other men not under our charge may minister to pride, to tyranny, to uncharitableness, to trouble, but can never consist with modesty; unless where duty or the mere intentions of charity and relation do warrant it... Knock, therefore, at the door before you enter upon your neighbor's privacy: and remember, that there is no difference between entering his house and looking into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worst appear  The better reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50648]]></link><description><![CDATA[All was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worst appear  The better reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pretty and sweet manner of it forced Those waters from me which I would have stopped;  But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pretty and sweet manner of it forced Those waters from me which I would have stopped;  But I had not so much of man in me,   And all my mother came into mine eyes    And gave me up to tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're talking to a lot of major groups that may not have considered us in the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40404]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're talking to a lot of major groups that may not have considered us in the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47407]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a firm believer that it's not the way you look or what you have, but what you've got inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40249]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a firm believer that it's not the way you look or what you have, but what you've got inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. -Bernadette Devlin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22799]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. -Bernadette Devlin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority justifies their doing whatever they please with the world, just the way Hitler’s mythology of Aryan superiority justified his doing whatever he pleased with Europe. But in the end this mythology is not deeply satisfying. The Takers are a profoundly lonely people. The world for them is enemy territory, and they live in it like an army of occupation, alienated and isolated by their extraordinary specialness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is hideously fragile [and] there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is hideously fragile [and] there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52824]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, therefore I am - I think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27675]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, therefore I am - I think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's why we play the game. Anything is possible, anything can happen, and we proved that again tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56729]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's why we play the game. Anything is possible, anything can happen, and we proved that again tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. -Winston Churchill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns,  But breathes, like perfect joys,   Tender tones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns,  But breathes, like perfect joys,   Tender tones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy without morality is impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy without morality is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21745</guid></item></channel></rss>