<?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[One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14697]]></link><description><![CDATA[One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deny Self for Self's sake ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deny Self for Self's sake]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish they would only take me as I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/288]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish they would only take me as I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9658]]></link><description><![CDATA[To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28298]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/821]]></link><description><![CDATA[With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I doubt it. I just think he's going to equal or slightly exceed the $74 million from the last time. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I doubt it. I just think he's going to equal or slightly exceed the $74 million from the last time. I don't think he'll reach $100 million.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage equality changed life for people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage equality changed life for people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His deeds do not agree with his words. [Lat., Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11679]]></link><description><![CDATA[His deeds do not agree with his words. [Lat., Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one nature--the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13897]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one nature--the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/733]]></link><description><![CDATA[By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing against him. I just don't think a candidate should run unopposed especially for a position as important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33142]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing against him. I just don't think a candidate should run unopposed especially for a position as important as this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43856]]></link><description><![CDATA[He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  I do not wish to imply that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  I do not wish to imply that God the Son could not, absolutely speaking, have become incarnate by a non-virginal conception, any more than I should wish to deny that God might, absolutely speaking, have redeemed mankind without becoming incarnate at all; it is always unwise to place limits to the power of God. What we can see is that both an incarnation and a virginal conception were thoroughly appropriate to the needs and circumstances of the case and were more "natural", in the sense of more appropriate, than the alternatives... In practice, denial of the virginal conception or inability to see its relevance almost always goes with an inadequate understanding of the Incarnation and of the Christian religion in general.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60195]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55926]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43911]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever limits us, we call Fate ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever limits us, we call Fate]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect is what we owe; love, what we give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy mandoes not get much further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy mandoes not get much further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17949]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24612]]></link><description><![CDATA[We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53307]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59730]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long;  So instead of getting to heaven at last, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48082]]></link><description><![CDATA[God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long;  So instead of getting to heaven at last,   I'm going all along.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is an inhuman word. [Lat., Inhumanum verbum est ultio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is an inhuman word. [Lat., Inhumanum verbum est ultio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is never finished, only abandoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is never finished, only abandoned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47010]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45988]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence is better then a rent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence is better then a rent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know. [Lat., Etiam oblivisci quod scis interdum expedit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16484]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know. [Lat., Etiam oblivisci quod scis interdum expedit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60920]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else." (Vox et praeterea nibil.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he's the best country songwriter there ever was. My mom and dad played his music all the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41022]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he's the best country songwriter there ever was. My mom and dad played his music all the time when I was growing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard  Than can the substance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55301]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard  Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers   Armed in proof and led by shallow Richmond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55301</guid></item></channel></rss>