<?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[We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10451]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live of love, it is when Jesus sleeps   To sleep near Him, though stormy waves beat nigh. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7347]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live of love, it is when Jesus sleeps   To sleep near Him, though stormy waves beat nigh. Deem not I shall awake Him! On these deeps   Peace reigns, like that the Blessed know on high. To Hope, the vovage seems one little day;   Faith's hand shall soon the veil between remove; 'Tis Charity that swells my sail alway.     I live of love!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cook dominated. She didn't make any mistakes, and if she did, they didn't find them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cook dominated. She didn't make any mistakes, and if she did, they didn't find them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/962]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Mahfouz.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I deserve respect for the things I did not do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47017]]></link><description><![CDATA[I deserve respect for the things I did not do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66468]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21111]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valour that parleys is near yielding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valour that parleys is near yielding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So--now the danger dared at last, Look back and smile at perils past! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51101]]></link><description><![CDATA[So--now the danger dared at last, Look back and smile at perils past!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The odds clearly favor the Bank of Canada raising the overnight rate by a quarter point on May 24 to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The odds clearly favor the Bank of Canada raising the overnight rate by a quarter point on May 24 to 4.25 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This band goes so well with the other two and we wanted to give them as much as a chance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38215]]></link><description><![CDATA[This band goes so well with the other two and we wanted to give them as much as a chance as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and proneness to credulity. The urge to escape our real self ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52286]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and proneness to credulity. The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. The refusal to see ourselves as we are develops a distaste for facts and cold logic. There is no hope for the frustrated in the actual and the possible. Salvation can come to them only from the miraculous, which seeps through a crack in the iron wall of inexorable reality. They asked to be deceived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friends isn't about who came first and who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63033]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friends isn't about who came first and who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7994]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God -- ah, then things must be critical indeed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is what feelings sound like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is what feelings sound like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9512]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54876]]></link><description><![CDATA[And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (By they I mean computers: I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  The truth is that every man is in Christ; the condemnation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  The truth is that every man is in Christ; the condemnation of every man is that he will not own the truth, he will not act as if it were true, that except he were joined with Christ, he could not think, breathe, live a single hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5221]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23901]]></link><description><![CDATA[A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-faking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[is an option, but not a likely option. It's cleaner to have a deal with one partner than with multiple ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35179]]></link><description><![CDATA[is an option, but not a likely option. It's cleaner to have a deal with one partner than with multiple partners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761  Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761  Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955  Christianity does not consist in any partial amendment of our lives, any particular moral virtues, but in an entire change of our natural temper, a life wholly devoted to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13689]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a bad day. Horrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39980]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a bad day. Horrible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66720]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1062]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are busy looking at your next step,how can you see where you are going? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34402]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are busy looking at your next step,how can you see where you are going?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57762]]></link><description><![CDATA[I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people. I am not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15229]]></link><description><![CDATA[I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23499]]></link><description><![CDATA[A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to develop a market mechanism and to try to diversify our energy sources. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38007]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to develop a market mechanism and to try to diversify our energy sources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not roommates, but we room next to each other and we know we've got to do this together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32253]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not roommates, but we room next to each other and we know we've got to do this together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting. [Lat., Art longa, vita brevis est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting. [Lat., Art longa, vita brevis est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9995]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11910]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand because I miss them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was lawyers nominated, but nothing would happen. I guess I got into someone's ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33892]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was lawyers nominated, but nothing would happen. I guess I got into someone's ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is achieved without toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is achieved without toil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance. -Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance. -Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56065</guid></item></channel></rss>