<?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[Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4260]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47195]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our forgiving of others will not procure forgiveness for ourselves; but our not forgiving others proves that we ourselves are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our forgiving of others will not procure forgiveness for ourselves; but our not forgiving others proves that we ourselves are not forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62842]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. - The Life of Poetry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22410]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jonathan Edwards - he has his faith, his health, his wife and his children, but more importantly, he has his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Edwards - he has his faith, his health, his wife and his children, but more importantly, he has his Olympic gold medal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   What happens to someone who follows heretical teachings? It became quickly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   What happens to someone who follows heretical teachings? It became quickly and readily apparent how cruel heretical teachings are and how prevalent the heresies are in contemporary times. Victims of these teachings have been encouraged to either to escape the world and their basic humanity into some form of flight and death or to use religion to undergird and isolate further their own self-centered self from the need to be loved and to love...   The conviction that heresy is cruel has given me a growing awe of and respect for orthodoxy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money — the root of all evil.... Man needs roots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money — the root of all evil.... Man needs roots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is like a man rowing a boat upstream. He has no choice; he must go ahead or he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is like a man rowing a boat upstream. He has no choice; he must go ahead or he will go back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14646]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49383]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12734]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/696]]></link><description><![CDATA[We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are unwilling to take positions. There is concern about the Australian dollar because of its connection to rates, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41923]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are unwilling to take positions. There is concern about the Australian dollar because of its connection to rates, but also because everybody gets nervous around such volatility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see them here is a dream come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41577]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see them here is a dream come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mom hates dad, Dad hates mom, it all makes you feel so sad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mom hates dad, Dad hates mom, it all makes you feel so sad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9735]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dad was a pretty poor guy, he didn't have a whole lot of money. He always wanted something for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38826]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dad was a pretty poor guy, he didn't have a whole lot of money. He always wanted something for my brother and myself, some kind of business. He'd asked the owners of this course to call him if it ever came up for sale, and one day, they called. I had a scholarship offer to Ohio State and my dad said, 'Son, what do you want to do, cut grass or go to school?' I said, what do you want me to do, Dad? He said, 'Well, I can't afford any help.' I said, 'No problem, Dad, I'll help you cut grass.' Looking back, I think I made the right decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35299]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14214]]></link><description><![CDATA[With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5842]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In you are sent The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;  In you soars up the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4548]]></link><description><![CDATA[In you are sent The types of Truths whose life is The To Come;  In you soars up the Adam from the fall;   In you the Future as the Past is given--    Ev'n in our death ye bid us hail our birth;--     Unfold these pages, and behold the Heaven,      Without one grave-stone left upon the Earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21684]]></link><description><![CDATA[When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cat may look like a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5310]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cat may look like a king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just like you wouldn't give a book to someone who doesn't know how to read, don't give your heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just like you wouldn't give a book to someone who doesn't know how to read, don't give your heart to someone who doesn't know how to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very pleased that Governor Perry and his Commissioner of Education firmly believe that more education dollars should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31195]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very pleased that Governor Perry and his Commissioner of Education firmly believe that more education dollars should be spent in the classroom, ... It is a travesty that hundreds of thousands of dollars were previously spent on nonacademic expenses such as lobbyists and seminars, rather than in our children's classrooms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5760]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never met a man I didn't like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1645]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never met a man I didn't like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudices are what fools use for reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudices are what fools use for reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. Whenthe judgement day comes, God will find six crumbs. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. Whenthe judgement day comes, God will find six crumbs. Stooping by the coffinlid waiting for something to rise as the something's always did. ImagineHis surprise, bellowing above the general noise, "Where is Effie? Shewas dead." Back to God in a tiny voice: "My name's Maybe."The first crumb said. The number two crumb picked up the song."Might, I'm called. I've done no wrong." Cried the third crumb,"I am Should. Here's our little brother Could and my big sisterWould. Don't punish us for we've been good." And the last crumb, withsome shame, whispered unto God, "My name is Must and with the others,we've been Effie, who isn't alive and never was. Cross the threshold haveno dread. Lift the sheet back in this way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough. -Joe E. Lewis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24917]]></link><description><![CDATA[You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough. -Joe E. Lewis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8816]]></link><description><![CDATA[We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which  I find no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9807]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which  I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a young team. We'll grow from this, and it will only help us in the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35228]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a young team. We'll grow from this, and it will only help us in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the way that physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem: but although we sneer  In health--when ill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26684]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the way that physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem: but although we sneer  In health--when ill, we call them to attend us,   Without the least propensity to jeer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58794]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58794</guid></item></channel></rss>