<?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[Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nicer to have them chant your name than to do the opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32953]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nicer to have them chant your name than to do the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59895]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is knowing when to be immature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is knowing when to be immature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome,  A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2787]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome,  A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,   The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead    Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets;     As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,      Disasters in the sun; and the moist star       Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands        Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were horrified. They were asking what it was, and we were saying, 'Sadly it's probably ill,' and you're trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28956]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were horrified. They were asking what it was, and we were saying, 'Sadly it's probably ill,' and you're trying to make it as light as you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the reward of my folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51749]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the reward of my folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O what a loud and fearful shriek was there! . . .  Ah me! they view'd beneath an hireling's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16673]]></link><description><![CDATA[O what a loud and fearful shriek was there! . . .  Ah me! they view'd beneath an hireling's sword   Fallen Kosciusco.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22990]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Philip & James, Apostles I come in the little things,  Saith the Lord:  Not borne on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Philip & James, Apostles I come in the little things,  Saith the Lord:  Not borne on morning wings  Of majesty, but I have set My Feet  Amidst the delicate and bladed wheat  That springs triumphant in the furrowed sod.  There do I dwell, in weakness and in power;  Not broken or divided, saith our God!  In your strait garden plot I come to flowers  About your porch My Vine,  Meek, fruitful, doth entwine;  Waits, at the threshold, Love's appointed hour. I come in the little things, Saith the Lord: Yea! on the glancing wings Of eager birds, the softly pattering feet Of furred and gentle beasts, I come to meet Your hear and wayward heart. In brown bright eyes That peep from out the brake, I stand confest. On every nest Where feathery Patience is content to brood And leaves her pleasure for the high emprize Of motherhood -- There doth My Godhead rest. I come in the little things,  Saith the Lord:  My starry wings I do forsake,  Love's highway of humility to take:  Meekly I fit my stature to your need.  In beggar's part  About your gates I shall not cease to plead -- As man, to speak with man -- Till by such art  I shall achieve My Immemorial Plan,  Pass the low lintel of the human heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's sloppy and it's chaotic, but the degree to which it improves precision in the retrieval process can be quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30418]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's sloppy and it's chaotic, but the degree to which it improves precision in the retrieval process can be quite significant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14742]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery--psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52187]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wonderful discovery--psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24386]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. [Psalms 64:1]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. [Psalms 64:1].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to abstain from writing satire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50460]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to abstain from writing satire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14321]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5898]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go byyourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21309]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go byyourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57811]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66109]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47427]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25520]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many Christians are reluctant to become involved in public affairs be cause politics is a "dirty business", but the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many Christians are reluctant to become involved in public affairs be cause politics is a "dirty business", but the same people are generally quite happy to go into business life, which is in its way just as "dirty". If the dubious practices and moral compromises of every walk of life were dissected and made known with the glare of publicity which shines on the activities of politicians, then those who like to think that they can keep their hands clean would have very few professions to choose from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52904]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   Who belongs to the Church? Who is my true brother? We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   Who belongs to the Church? Who is my true brother? We cannot always tell whether or not a man believes in Christ; but we can always ask -- Christianity is not a secret society. And if a man says he loves the Lord, why should I not treat him as my brother? If I should happen to welcome one who is only a professing Christian, who has not given his heart to Christ, what harm has it done? I will have offered the love of God to one who rejects it, and I will have given a few hours of my life to an enemy -- but our Father holds out His hands all day long to a rebellious people, and our Savior gave His life for me when I was His enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62805]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10682]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4719]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2149]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called, ''Keep tomorrow dark,'' and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) ''Cheat the Prophet.'' The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43668]]></link><description><![CDATA[One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8656]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So when two dogs are fighting in the streets, When a third dog one of the two dogs meets:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9963]]></link><description><![CDATA[So when two dogs are fighting in the streets, When a third dog one of the two dogs meets:  With angry teeth he bites him to the bone,   And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And grace that won who saw to wish her stay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18084]]></link><description><![CDATA[And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, come away; Why dost thou stay? Thy road is ready and thy paths made straight With longing expectations wait ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, come away; Why dost thou stay? Thy road is ready and thy paths made straight With longing expectations wait The consecration of thy beautious feet. Ride on triumphantly; behold! we lay Our lusts and proud wills in thy way. Hosannah! welcome to our hearts: Lord, here Thou hast a temple too, and full as dear  As that of Sion; and as full of sin -- Nothing but thieves and robbers dwell therein; Enter and chase them forth, and cleanse the floor,  Crucify them, that they may never more Profane that holy place Where thou hast chose to set thy face. And then if our still tongues shall be  Mute in the praises of thy deity, The stones out of the temple wall  Shall cry aloud and call Hosannah! and thy glorious footsteps greet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7340</guid></item></channel></rss>