<?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[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944   The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944   The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4825]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To work is to pray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62176]]></link><description><![CDATA[To work is to pray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was dehydrated. He's been on his feet all day just like everybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40483]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was dehydrated. He's been on his feet all day just like everybody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard cases make bad law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard cases make bad law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's prophets of the Beautiful, These Poets were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46845]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's prophets of the Beautiful, These Poets were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We form bonds. It's a very female bonding kind of dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28558]]></link><description><![CDATA[We form bonds. It's a very female bonding kind of dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love death. The US loves life. That is the difference between us two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45311]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love death. The US loves life. That is the difference between us two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18036]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35196]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians in general are far too eager to urge special exceptions when they hear these charges [of corruption in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians in general are far too eager to urge special exceptions when they hear these charges [of corruption in the church] preferred; far too ready to make out a case for themselves while they admit their application to others; far too ready to think that the cause of God is interested in the suppression of facts. The prophets should have taught us a different lesson. They should have led us to feel that it was a solemn duty, not to conceal, but to bring forward all the evidence which proves, not that one country is better than another, or one portion of the church better than another, but that there is a principle of decay, a tendency to apostasy in all, and that no comfort can come from merely balancing symptoms of good here against symptoms of evil there, no comfort from considering whether we are a little less contentious, a little less idolatrous than our neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those, who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those, who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32662]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of ourcontrols. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of ourcontrols.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22410]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64375]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19487]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign,  And unknown regions date descry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign,  And unknown regions date descry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes nine tailors to make a man. [Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are very mobile if they don't like it. We've put them 30 miles away, and, eventually, they are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30419]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are very mobile if they don't like it. We've put them 30 miles away, and, eventually, they are in a farm that doesn't want them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15699]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49957]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like how we did it. We pushed the tempo and got the shots we wanted. It was big for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like how we did it. We pushed the tempo and got the shots we wanted. It was big for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43493]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64266]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the days that's in the week, I dearly love but one day,  And that's the day that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the days that's in the week, I dearly love but one day,  And that's the day that comes betwixt   A Saturday and Monday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without music, life is a journey through a desert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without music, life is a journey through a desert.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   The gaps in his education ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   The gaps in his education were of marvelous service to him. More learned, the formal logic of the schools would have robbed him of that flower of simplicity which is the great charm of his life; he would have seen the whole extent of the sore of the Church, and would no doubt have despaired of healing it. If he had known ecclesiastical discipline, he would have felt obliged to observe it; but, thanks to his ignorance, he could often violate it without knowing it, and be a heretic quite unawares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is plain as a pike staff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is plain as a pike staff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under this bill, Duke Cunningham still would be able to get away with trading bribes for earmarks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under this bill, Duke Cunningham still would be able to get away with trading bribes for earmarks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46436]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am unable to see how a man can find the hand of God in secular history unless he has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6322]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am unable to see how a man can find the hand of God in secular history unless he has first found an assurance of it in his personal experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25592]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for if it be true that is reported, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46869]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for if it be true that is reported, they will no better abide the touching with man's spittle than scalding water cast upon them: but if it happed to light within their chawes or mouth, especially if it come from a man that is fasting, it is present death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing the most intense bargaining among big states that we have seen since the end of the Cold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35953]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing the most intense bargaining among big states that we have seen since the end of the Cold War, with war in the offing and no certainty about the outcome,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35953</guid></item></channel></rss>