<?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[Wisdom begins at the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom begins at the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear Everything and judge for yourself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear Everything and judge for yourself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46370]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are in love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62919]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are in love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have been right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou, in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a life-long monument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou, in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a life-long monument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song of gladness in the heart.  ... Bernard of Clairvaux May 8, 2000 Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might this noble Lord do of more worship and joy to me than to show me (that am so simple) this marvelous homeliness [i.e., naturalness and simplicity]? Thus it fareth with our Lord Jesus and with us. For truly it is the most joy that may be that He that is highest and mightiest, noblest and worthiest, is lowest and meekest, homeliest and most courteous: and truly this marvelous joy shall be shewn us all when we see Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is holding up as well as you could imagine. But I can't discuss anything else until the board meeting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36036]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is holding up as well as you could imagine. But I can't discuss anything else until the board meeting tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and relationships are truly one of the most paradoxical aspects of being human. For it is in love that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and relationships are truly one of the most paradoxical aspects of being human. For it is in love that we find the greatest of strengths and the deepest of sorrows. Love can seem to be so fleeting and unachievable yet it remains well within our reach if we only learn how to embrace it's power. To experience true love, we must be willing to open ourselves up and sacrifice part of our heart and part of our soul. We must be willing to give of ourselves freely, and we must be willing to suffer. It is only when we expose our inner selves to the white hot flame of rejection, that love can burn so brightly as to join to souls, melding the two into one, creating a bond that joins forever. It is from this bond that we draw strength eternal and power ever lasting. It is in this thing that we call love that we find the means to achieve greatness, both in ourselves and in our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27439]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Lord of all pots and pans and things, since I've no time to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Lord of all pots and pans and things, since I've no time to be A saint by doing lovely things, or watching late with Thee, Or dreaming in the dawn-light, or storming Heaven's gates, Make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates. Although I must have Martha's hands, I have a Mary mind, And when I black the boots and shoes, Thy sandals, Lord, I find. I think of how they trod the earth, what time I scrub the floor: Accept this meditation, Lord, I haven't time for more. Warm all the kitchen with Thy love, and light it with Thy peace; Forgive me all my worrying, and make my grumbling cease. Thou who didst love to give men food, in room or by the sea, Accept this service that I do -- I do it unto Thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I strike the stars with by sublime head. [Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I strike the stars with by sublime head. [Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is not satisfaction. It is the grateful, faithful, fruitful use of what we have, little or much. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is not satisfaction. It is the grateful, faithful, fruitful use of what we have, little or much. It is to take the cup of Providence, and call upon the name of the Lord. What the cup contains is its contents. To get all that is in the cup is the act and art of contentment. Not to drink because one has but half a cup, or because one does not like its flavor, or because somebody else has silver to one's own glass, is to lose the contents; and that is the penalty, if not the meaning, of discontent. No one is discontented who employs and enjoys to the utmost what he has. It is high philosophy to say, we can have just what we like if we like what we have; but this much at least can be done, and this is contentment: to have the most and best in life by making the most and best of what we have.   ... Maltbie D. Babcock August 7, 2000 Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866   For all the vigour of his polemic, St. Paul does not content himself with the denunciation of error, but finds the best defense against its insidious approaches in a closer adherence to the love of God and faith in Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required "blood and sweat and tears.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12536]]></link><description><![CDATA[This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52501]]></link><description><![CDATA[All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The university is very concerned by this disturbance and any injury to students, ... We will reevaluate the security procedures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The university is very concerned by this disturbance and any injury to students, ... We will reevaluate the security procedures for this type of event and make every effort to assure that it will not happen again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This garden is the crown jewel of the entire restoration project. The flowers cost $150,000. But it cost four times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33091]]></link><description><![CDATA[This garden is the crown jewel of the entire restoration project. The flowers cost $150,000. But it cost four times that for the layers upon layers of work in this garden that people never see, such as the archeology, the engineering, and the irrigation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48122]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53112]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light of reason, but after the fashion of others. [Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When some of these big companies realize how much money there is to make, those ports will start being able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41211]]></link><description><![CDATA[When some of these big companies realize how much money there is to make, those ports will start being able to take shipments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which othermen have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which othermen have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30720]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58522]]></link><description><![CDATA[He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are, of course, several things in Ontario that are more dangerous than wolves. For instance, the step-ladder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27809]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are, of course, several things in Ontario that are more dangerous than wolves. For instance, the step-ladder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things like that don't bother me. Just one week ago, Paul said he wanted to play his whole career in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things like that don't bother me. Just one week ago, Paul said he wanted to play his whole career in one uniform. It's important for us to keep all our players in the right frame of mind, and it would be great if everyone felt good about everything for the whole year. But that's not the way the NBA season works. All I know is I talk to Paul and he tells me he wants to keep together and get better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy?  Some cost a passing bell;   Some a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12857]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy?  Some cost a passing bell;   Some a light sigh,    That shakes from Life's fresh crown     Only a rose-leaf down.      If there were dreams to sell,       Merry and sad to tell,        And the crier rung the bell,         What would you buy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The courage and bravery of our young men and women fighting overseas continues to inspire all of us, and indeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59712]]></link><description><![CDATA[The courage and bravery of our young men and women fighting overseas continues to inspire all of us, and indeed inspire the free world and those yearning for freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11745]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the time, when we play, the other teams have better athletes, but our players understand if we go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the time, when we play, the other teams have better athletes, but our players understand if we go out and play fundamental basketball we have a chance to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our inventions mirror our secret wishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44612]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   One can say: "I will, but my body does not obey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   One can say: "I will, but my body does not obey me"; but not: "My will does not obey me".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8445</guid></item></channel></rss>