<?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[The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will ask him for my place again: he shall tell me I am a drunkard! Had I as many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22934]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will ask him for my place again: he shall tell me I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is unblest, and the ingredient is a devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24214]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24156]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285  In the last analysis, the service the Christian does is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285  In the last analysis, the service the Christian does is not his, but Christ's. Therefore he must not feel too keenly the burden of responsibility, because at the end of the day all he can say is, "We are unprofitable servants". This knowledge, far from inhibiting action, actually releases the Christian from that appalling feeling of responsibility that has driven so many high-minded humanists to despair, even to suicide... Work done conscientiously by the Christian is his share in Christ's service; but it is Christ's service, and therefore the Christian need neither be proud because it has succeeded or overwhelmed because it has failed. The service of Christ is supremely expressed in the apparent failure of the Cross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/344]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64428]]></link><description><![CDATA[An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured he took that extended lead and as I was going to throw, I saw him delaying and tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32646]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured he took that extended lead and as I was going to throw, I saw him delaying and tried to hold up and threw the ball away and felt like just the biggest idiot alive at that point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Due to technical difficulties the light at the end of the tunnel will be off until further notice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Due to technical difficulties the light at the end of the tunnel will be off until further notice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our advertising guidelines are such that Lowe's chooses not to advertise in controversial programming, including programming with gratuitous sex and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our advertising guidelines are such that Lowe's chooses not to advertise in controversial programming, including programming with gratuitous sex and violence,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human; to forgive, divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16545]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human; to forgive, divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure  To brood so long upon one luxury,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20615]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure  To brood so long upon one luxury,   Unless it did, though fearfully, espy    A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62211]]></link><description><![CDATA[He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that Communism needs to make it successful is someone to feed and clothe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46983]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that Communism needs to make it successful is someone to feed and clothe it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to talk with people who care about things that matter thatwill make a life-changing difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to talk with people who care about things that matter thatwill make a life-changing difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much gravity argues a shallow mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15062]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom is the great guide to human life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom is the great guide to human life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    If I now want to add something of my own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    If I now want to add something of my own (i.e., inner assurances) to this faith, if this great and glorious faith is defective and saves me not till I can add my own sense and my own feeling to it at such a time or place, is not this saying in the plainest manner that faith alone cannot justify me? ... All I would say of these inward delights and enjoyments is this: they are not holiness, they are not piety, they are not perfection, but they are God's gracious allurements and calls to seek after holiness and spiritual perfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65265]]></link><description><![CDATA[At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16676]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[formation of a fully represented, broad-based government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28280]]></link><description><![CDATA[formation of a fully represented, broad-based government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1067]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4951]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there they placed a peacock in his pride, Before the damsel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46005]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there they placed a peacock in his pride, Before the damsel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the people our parents warned us about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47637]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the people our parents warned us about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a great opportunity to learn about other cultures that we have in the area. Come out and get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31260]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a great opportunity to learn about other cultures that we have in the area. Come out and get to know your neighbors because we're afraid of what we don't know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singletary and Reynolds score half of their points, so we knew they were the key to their victories every night. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Singletary and Reynolds score half of their points, so we knew they were the key to their victories every night. We just kind of keyed on them (and) didn't let them catch the ball in time to give it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry a widdow before she leave mourning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. - Aenid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. - Aenid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!  Happiest they of human race,   To whom God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!  Happiest they of human race,   To whom God has granted grace    To read, to fear, to hope, to pray,     To lift the latch, and force the way:      And better had they ne'er been born,       Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going down there, they're looking at me like I'm a veteran, even though I'm a rookie. I'm like, 'I'm still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going down there, they're looking at me like I'm a veteran, even though I'm a rookie. I'm like, 'I'm still a rookie!' But it was a good experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was good to see us rise to occasion. Getting an early lead gives you a mental edge. You know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33414]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was good to see us rise to occasion. Getting an early lead gives you a mental edge. You know one mistake is not going to beat you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose. -Gandhi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose. -Gandhi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of them are starting at an even playing field. They've never played the game. These girls only have got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of them are starting at an even playing field. They've never played the game. These girls only have got a couple weeks of experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man blames fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole in one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man blames fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole in one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seems like it's something different every time, ... Denver had tall guys getting right in the gap. To some degree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seems like it's something different every time, ... Denver had tall guys getting right in the gap. To some degree it was the right spot at the right time. On a wet field, a longer field goal is tough to get the ball up, but you can't fault [Novak]. Sometimes, it's just a gotcha.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34740</guid></item></channel></rss>