<?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[Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foolish tongues talke by the dozen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing's more dull and negligent Than an old, lazy government,  That knows no interest of state,   But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing's more dull and negligent Than an old, lazy government,  That knows no interest of state,   But such as serves a present strait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15309]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24278]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comedy is tragedy - plus time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comedy is tragedy - plus time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The march of the human mind is slow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The march of the human mind is slow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology in general, instead of acting as a beacon-light to guide the people of God, the laity, as they confront ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology in general, instead of acting as a beacon-light to guide the people of God, the laity, as they confront the problems of living for Christ in the world, has for generations been taking refuge in an ever more minute study of Christian origins. Theology is less and less about God and God's world, and more and more a department of ancient history, absorbed in minute details of historical and literary criticism. The whole business is wildly out of proportion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are moments in the music that are really talking about the violence, as a society, that we do to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33178]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are moments in the music that are really talking about the violence, as a society, that we do to our water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been going to this high school for 7 and 1/2 years, I'm no dummy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32286]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been going to this high school for 7 and 1/2 years, I'm no dummy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sylphs and ondines And the sea-kings and queens  Long ago, long ago, on the waves built a city, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sylphs and ondines And the sea-kings and queens  Long ago, long ago, on the waves built a city,   As lovely as seems    To some bard in his dreams,     The soul of his latest love-ditty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58216]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hide the key to your heart is to risk forgetting where you placed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19015]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hide the key to your heart is to risk forgetting where you placed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to get him in the NFL Hall now and that's going to be tough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33896]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to get him in the NFL Hall now and that's going to be tough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   The very strength and facility of the pessimists' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   The very strength and facility of the pessimists' case at once poses us a problem. If the universe is so bad, or even half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? Men are fools, perhaps; but hardly so foolish as that. The direct inference from black to white, from evil flower to virtuous root, from senseless work to a workman infinitely wise, staggers belief. The spectacle of the universe as revealed by experience can never have been the ground of religion: it must have always been something in spite of which religion, acquired from a different source, was held.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. -The Merchant of Venice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55544]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our system is not one of justice, but of law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our system is not one of justice, but of law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.   ... Blaise Pascal July 29, 2000 Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, the Shamrock, the green, immortal Shamrock! Chosen leaf  OF Bard and Chief,   Old Erin's native Shamrock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56152]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, the Shamrock, the green, immortal Shamrock! Chosen leaf  OF Bard and Chief,   Old Erin's native Shamrock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye,  That welcomes every changing hour,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10996]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye,  That welcomes every changing hour,   And weathers every sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Puns are a form of humor with words.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Puns are a form of humor with words.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women know not the whole of their coquetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women know not the whole of their coquetry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7703]]></link><description><![CDATA[God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man once see his God down in the arena as a Man, -- suffering, tempted, sweating, and agonized, finally dying a criminal's death - and he is a hard man indeed who is untouched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man of science is a poor philosopher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man of science is a poor philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65509]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53182]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59579]]></link><description><![CDATA[One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't live on a hill. I live down under a hill, in the bottom and I've got a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36356]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't live on a hill. I live down under a hill, in the bottom and I've got a lot of cars, yeah.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, andhumanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, andhumanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd by all that is sweetest in life   Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten in strife!    But if, out of humour, and hungry, alone     A man should sit down to dinner, each one      Of the dishes which the cook chooses to spoil       With a horrible mixture of garlic and oil,        The chances are ten against one, I must own,         He gets up as ill-tempered as when he sat down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53242]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of them had done things that really, really stun you when you hear about them. Nothing would ever be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of them had done things that really, really stun you when you hear about them. Nothing would ever be considered a breakthrough unless it first seemed a little ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64877]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy delights in Joy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy delights in Joy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965   But first I said, ... "Some people think it is not proper for a clergyman to dance. I mean to assert my freedom from any such law. If our Lord chose to represent, in His parable of the Prodigal Son, the joy in Heaven over a repentant sinner by the figure of "music and dancing', I will hearken to Him rather than to man, be they as good as they may." For I had long thought that the way to make indifferent things bad, was for good people not to do them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That genre of music is one that anybody can at the very least tolerate and enjoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36845]]></link><description><![CDATA[That genre of music is one that anybody can at the very least tolerate and enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3615]]></link><description><![CDATA[My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect  To our own prodigal excess   Of too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect  To our own prodigal excess   Of too familiar happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20311]]></link><description><![CDATA[To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20311</guid></item></channel></rss>