<?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[Science is the topography of ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the topography of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a dignity in dying that doctors should not dare to deny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11412]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a dignity in dying that doctors should not dare to deny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19414]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a one-way street, and we are not coming back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a one-way street, and we are not coming back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have a lot riding on 'American Idol' and, hopefully for Fox, the show has long coattails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30407]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have a lot riding on 'American Idol' and, hopefully for Fox, the show has long coattails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most prepared are the most dedicated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most prepared are the most dedicated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How bless'd, how envied, were our life, Could we but scape the poulterer's knife!  But man, curs'd man, on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8631]]></link><description><![CDATA[How bless'd, how envied, were our life, Could we but scape the poulterer's knife!  But man, curs'd man, on Turkeys preys,   And Christmas shortens all our days:    Sometimes with oysters we combine,     Sometimes assist the savory chine;      From the low peasant to the lord,       The Turkey smokes on every board.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When prodigals return great things are done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When prodigals return great things are done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/977]]></link><description><![CDATA[To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59270]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very valiant trencher-man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55413]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very valiant trencher-man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63562]]></link><description><![CDATA[On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21141]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shows like 'CSI' are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  Jesus hath many lovers of His heavenly kingdom, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  Jesus hath many lovers of His heavenly kingdom, but few bearers of His Cross. He hath many seekers of comfort, but few of tribulation. He findeth many companions of His table, but few of His fasting. All desire to rejoice with Him, few are willing to undergo anything for His sake. Many follow Jesus that they may eat of His loaves, but few that they may drink of the cup of His passion. Many are astonished at His miracles, few follow after the shame of His Cross. Many love Jesus so long as no adversities happen to them. Many praise Him and bless Him, so long as they receive any comforts from Him. But if Jesus hide Himself and withdraw a little while, they fall either into complaining or into too great dejection of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52522]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.   - Francis Bacon,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne  My part of evil only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60882]]></link><description><![CDATA[O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne  My part of evil only.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to find a way to match his intensity for 90 minutes because he's going to find a way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37602]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to find a way to match his intensity for 90 minutes because he's going to find a way to score a goal. The thing is you can't just focus on him. They have so many weapons with Noonan, Ralston and Dempsey that you can't focus on any one of them and it's important that all of our field players are helping defensively.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I started anywhere else but Vancouver I would not be here tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I started anywhere else but Vancouver I would not be here tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The balance of nature is reached when heating the house costs as much as going south for the winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The balance of nature is reached when heating the house costs as much as going south for the winter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At last the Muses rose, . . . And scattered, . . . as they flew, Their blooming wreaths from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54315]]></link><description><![CDATA[At last the Muses rose, . . . And scattered, . . . as they flew, Their blooming wreaths from fair Valclusa's bowers  To Arno's myrtle border.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55662]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at you. You made a hole-in-one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at you. You made a hole-in-one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew coming in that in order for us to win this game, we would have to get rebounds, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28891]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew coming in that in order for us to win this game, we would have to get rebounds, and to hold the ball on offense. The less possessions they had, the better off we were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say not always what you know, but always know what you say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish though eternal peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish though eternal peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, it would have been harder on me had those guys been 10-year vets, ... But they are so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34742]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, it would have been harder on me had those guys been 10-year vets, ... But they are so young, I just told them that, 'Here's how I snap it and that's where I'm going to keep snapping it.' I pulled rank on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tennis has given me soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tennis has given me soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who will not economize will have to agonize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13346]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who will not economize will have to agonize.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there, From me, whose love was of that dignity  That it went hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12076]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there, From me, whose love was of that dignity  That it went hand in hand even with the vow   I made to her in marriage, and to decline    Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor     To those of mine!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The face the index of a feeling mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14857]]></link><description><![CDATA[The face the index of a feeling mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17383]]></link><description><![CDATA[This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The long days are no happier than the short ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The long days are no happier than the short ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7997]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have this running quandary about Christmas. I get upset about it, because I feel that we American Christians make too much of it, and too little. Too little of it, because we pile all sorts of other things onto it, including some that have only the feeblest connection with the Event it is supposed to commemorate. If God did become a man, in any real sense, it is the most important thing that ever happened. Surely we, who believe it, could well devote one day a year to uninterrupted contemplation of the fact, and let Saturnalia fall on the winter solstice, where it belongs.   On the other hand, we make so much of the actual birth, and forget the things that make it more than just the birth of a baby (though even that is, in Walt Whitman's phrase, "miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels") -- more, even, than the birth of the greatest man who ever lived. We forget the promise to Eve of a descendant who will solve the problem of Evil; the promise to Abraham of one by whom all mankind will be blessed; the promise to Moses of a greater prophet than he, to arise from his people; and the promise to David of a Son who would be his Master. We forget about the eternal Purpose behind it all: it's like telling a story and leaving out the point. Yes, it is true that God gave us His Son, and so maybe we ought also to give gifts -- but what, and to whom? It is also true that God gave us Himself, and the only sensible response to that is to give ourselves to Him. There is nothing else that He wants from us, or, if there is something, He can take it. Only I, my ego, my heart, is truly mine to give or to withhold -- and is therefore the appropriate gift to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's going to be missing for at least four to six weeks. It's a big blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39683]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's going to be missing for at least four to six weeks. It's a big blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56967</guid></item></channel></rss>