<?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[To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48399]]></link><description><![CDATA[To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw 'em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16676]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many things become beautiful when you really look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66860]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many things become beautiful when you really look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always special to do that. Then to have it on your homecoming night, especially as a senior ... that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28802]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always special to do that. Then to have it on your homecoming night, especially as a senior ... that's even more special.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord of all being is far more than the Lord of all beings. He is the Lord of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord of all being is far more than the Lord of all beings. He is the Lord of all actual existence. He is the Lord of all kinds of beings--spiritual being, natural being, physical being. Therefore, when we rightly worship Him we encompass all being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think most people will believe that Arthur Anderson died because (after Enron imploded) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think most people will believe that Arthur Anderson died because (after Enron imploded)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965  Who is it that has helped you most? Has it not been those who believed in you? Perhaps there may be few such left. The light of expectation may have died out of the most friendly and hopeful eyes; and you yourself may have lost heart. Ah! but there is still One whose faith in you has never wavered. And how wonderful it is that that one should be Jesus Christ!... It was a wonderful dream God dreamed, Christ says, when He created you; it was a stately being that was in His mind when you were fashioned; and I can make you all He meant that you should be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17124]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insist upon yourself. Be original. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insist upon yourself. Be original.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly Katrina eliminated boating activities in that part of the Gulf Coast, but for West Marine, 15 stores were directly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly Katrina eliminated boating activities in that part of the Gulf Coast, but for West Marine, 15 stores were directly affected by the hurricane. Last year, they had 60 stores in the path of major hurricanes, and it affected earnings by about a penny. At least with respect to the hurricanes, it should be less (of an impact) than what happened last year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man safely goeth abroad who loveth not to rest at home. No man safely talketh but he who loveth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7927]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man safely goeth abroad who loveth not to rest at home. No man safely talketh but he who loveth to hold his peace. No man safely ruleth but he who loveth to be subject. No man safely commandeth but he who loveth to obey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56221]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51421]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians say this will lead to civil conflict. It doesn't lead to girls being treasured. It leads to them being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians say this will lead to civil conflict. It doesn't lead to girls being treasured. It leads to them being traded as commodities and stolen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17096]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died,  We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it--lie down for an aeon or two,   Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not trying to scare anybody. We're not trying to fool anybody. That's just the way this show is done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32192]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not trying to scare anybody. We're not trying to fool anybody. That's just the way this show is done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take the blame for this one. Being a senior, I should be able to do more. . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36364]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take the blame for this one. Being a senior, I should be able to do more. . . . I'm not blaming it on that one possession (where he lost it). We were up in the first half and in the second half we didn't jump on them. I don't blame one play. Mistakes happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On an ongoing basis, manufacturers are raising prices because they can. It enhances profitability, largely because there are few incremental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32928]]></link><description><![CDATA[On an ongoing basis, manufacturers are raising prices because they can. It enhances profitability, largely because there are few incremental costs, and consumers' response to a higher price is relatively modest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will prepare and some day my chance will come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will prepare and some day my chance will come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44903]]></link><description><![CDATA[And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is only the beginning, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39067]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is only the beginning,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know her was to love her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25852]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know her was to love her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think he was feeling 100 percent, but with Andy Pettitte, he's got the mental wherewithal to overcome any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think he was feeling 100 percent, but with Andy Pettitte, he's got the mental wherewithal to overcome any type of tenderness and soreness with brainpower,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government didn't present any case, they just wanted it to appear like they did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42214]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government didn't present any case, they just wanted it to appear like they did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, And therein stay. Look not through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, And therein stay. Look not through the sheltering bars Upon tomorrow; God will help thee bear what comes of joy and sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were ten lepers healed, and only one turned back to give thanks, but it is to be noticed that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6893]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were ten lepers healed, and only one turned back to give thanks, but it is to be noticed that our Lord did not recall His gift from the other nine because of their lack of gratitude. When we begin to lessen our acts of kindness and helpfulness because we think those who receive do not properly appreciate what is done for them, it is time to question our own motives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give outcompletes the circle and comes back to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22419]]></link><description><![CDATA[In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give outcompletes the circle and comes back to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I know they've always told you/Selfishness was wrong/Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I know they've always told you/Selfishness was wrong/Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this song/]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had hired coach Frank Nails that season and he asked me to speak at the pep rally. I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had hired coach Frank Nails that season and he asked me to speak at the pep rally. I am -- and was then -- 5-foot-3, 138 pounds, and I stood next to 6-foot-6, 240-pound linemen and scolded them, telling them if they hit a little harder we might win a few games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2380]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. -Katharine Hepburn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14796]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. -Katharine Hepburn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65162]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5779]]></link><description><![CDATA[A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this fool's paradise, he drank delight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45463]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this fool's paradise, he drank delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These loans will help finance economic revitalization in areas that have experienced trade-related job losses attributable to NAFTA. NAFTA has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28546]]></link><description><![CDATA[These loans will help finance economic revitalization in areas that have experienced trade-related job losses attributable to NAFTA. NAFTA has been a net plus for the nation's economy, and the Clinton/Gore Administration's free trade policies have been a big contributor to our nation's economic prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted topleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21934]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted topleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3186]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.  'Tis more by art, than force of numerous strokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary; therefore, it is possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53387]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had the opportunity to make them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As is the mother, so is her daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48567]]></link><description><![CDATA[As is the mother, so is her daughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48567</guid></item></channel></rss>