<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand theuniverse without God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand theuniverse without God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/919]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She really played hard against McNary and I think we might have surprised ourselves with our performance. It was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37630]]></link><description><![CDATA[She really played hard against McNary and I think we might have surprised ourselves with our performance. It was a big game for me personally, since I went to McNary it was great to come away with a win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which never has been, never is, and never will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50764]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which never has been, never is, and never will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just trying to find the right combination of what will ultimately be our best group. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36009]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just trying to find the right combination of what will ultimately be our best group.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58914]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25510]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. [Fr., Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siecles vous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. [Fr., Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siecles vous contemplent.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisest of the wise may err. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisest of the wise may err.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63916]]></link><description><![CDATA[In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A room without books is like a body without a soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A room without books is like a body without a soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50994]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been caught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my face. Actually, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my face. Actually, I hate rats! In my time, I've picked up all sorts of things in hotels-fleas, lice, tapeworm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No clouds are in the morning sky, The vapors hug the stream,  Who says that life and love can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44902]]></link><description><![CDATA[No clouds are in the morning sky, The vapors hug the stream,  Who says that life and love can die   In all this northern gleam?    At every turn the maples burn,     The quail is whistling free,      The partridge whirs, and the frosted burs       Are dropping for you and me.        Ho! hillyho! heigh O!         Hillyho!          In the clear October morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59066]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687   The humblest and the most unseen activity in the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687   The humblest and the most unseen activity in the world can be the true worship of God. Work and worship literally become one. Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever; and man carries out that function when he does what God sent him into the world to do. Work well done rises like a hymn of praise to God. This means that the doctor on his rounds, the scientist in his laboratory, the teacher in his classroom, the musician at his music, the artist at his canvas, the shop assistant at his counter, the typist at her typewriter, the housewife in her kitchen -- all who are doing the work of the world as it should be done are joining in a great act of worship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64359]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to laugh and jeer and wiggle my ears at your death throes... You can OD on religion or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to laugh and jeer and wiggle my ears at your death throes... You can OD on religion or dope or war or toadburgers, for all I care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. -Anonymous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. -Anonymous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46249]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The resolution passed by the IAEA board of governors on 24 September makes clear the depth of international concern at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The resolution passed by the IAEA board of governors on 24 September makes clear the depth of international concern at Iran's decision. It remains to be seen how Iran will respond. Iran has an opportunity now to come into line with requests made by the IAEA board; we hope it would choose that constructive path.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a little smaller this year, but we have more threats offensively, I think. Our bench is a little deeper; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29512]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a little smaller this year, but we have more threats offensively, I think. Our bench is a little deeper; we're getting a lot of good play from a lot of guys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh Ronald McDonald when you smileeach of your teeth gravestones stands forbillions and billions of lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh Ronald McDonald when you smileeach of your teeth gravestones stands forbillions and billions of lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, sorrow! Why dost borrow  Heart's lightness from the merriment of May? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57255]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, sorrow! Why dost borrow  Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's high and low (culture), and we're casting a net wide. Almost everyone knows of these things; it's not like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40287]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's high and low (culture), and we're casting a net wide. Almost everyone knows of these things; it's not like we're bringing them some obscure things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63786]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9293]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32561]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd love to come back, but I think they're pretty well set. I'll be playing somewhere. The league is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd love to come back, but I think they're pretty well set. I'll be playing somewhere. The league is going to have to drag me off the floor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm the elected sheriff, ... I serve the people. I don't serve the mayor. I don't serve some politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38228]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm the elected sheriff, ... I serve the people. I don't serve the mayor. I don't serve some politicians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5295]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than all the pyramids would rise]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62371]]></link><description><![CDATA[The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She also won the gold medal in the Super Quiz and essay components. I've done essay judging since I began ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37997]]></link><description><![CDATA[She also won the gold medal in the Super Quiz and essay components. I've done essay judging since I began serving as coordinator in 2000, and Emma's essay was one of the best I've seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56916]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10496]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19678]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the gods bless me, When all our offices have been oppressed  With riotous feeders, when our vaults have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27418]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the gods bless me, When all our offices have been oppressed  With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept   With drunken spilth of wine, when every room    Hath blazed with lights and brayed with minstrelsy,     I have retired me to a wasteful cock      And set mine eyes at flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13769]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pig bought on credit is forever grunting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10607]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pig bought on credit is forever grunting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60156]]></link><description><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53579</guid></item></channel></rss>