<?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[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   George Brush, the hero of [Thornton Wilder's] "Heaven's My Destination", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   George Brush, the hero of [Thornton Wilder's] "Heaven's My Destination", a textbook salesman and evangelist extraordinary, is the innocent fool, in the kindliest sense of both the noun and the adjective. He is striving to be the fool in Christ, sowing the inevitable amazement, consternation and wrath that must ensue when Christ's fool runs at large among the worldly wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61153]]></link><description><![CDATA[If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future industry will replenish it. If war desiccate and lay waste our fields, under new cultivation they will grow green again and ripen to future harvest. If the walls of yonder Capitol should fall and its decorations be covered by the dust of battle, all these can be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of a demolished government; who shall dwell in the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty; who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites sovereignty with state's rights, individual security with prosperity?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24522]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best love story is when you fall in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62963]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best love story is when you fall in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33240]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings:  Live so, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings:  Live so, my Love, that when death shall come,   Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47714]]></link><description><![CDATA[True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4708]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... then the world 's mine oyster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22153]]></link><description><![CDATA[... then the world 's mine oyster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honourable peace becomes men, fierce anger should belong to beasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honourable peace becomes men, fierce anger should belong to beasts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He without fear is king of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44206]]></link><description><![CDATA[He without fear is king of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25859]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't cry for a man who's left you, the next one may fall for your smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't cry for a man who's left you, the next one may fall for your smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43735]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press served its purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press served its purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call Grover, tell him I am in Michigan and that I have two checks for him totaling 160 and need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call Grover, tell him I am in Michigan and that I have two checks for him totaling 160 and need a check back for Faith and Family for $150K.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men who make history have not time to write it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men who make history have not time to write it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very pleased with the way the team played, especially they way they hustled and dove on defense. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42121]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very pleased with the way the team played, especially they way they hustled and dove on defense. You can't ask for anything more. Sometimes the breaks don't go your way. We still have a chance to make the playoffs. We just have to win out from here. It's going to be a good test for the team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been working so hard because we know it's his last year and the road he's going to through, there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28358]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been working so hard because we know it's his last year and the road he's going to through, there's a couple of guys, and we've been trying to watch some tape work on things and he came through. He wrestled his butt off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just happy to get a few balls over the net and let my partner run around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just happy to get a few balls over the net and let my partner run around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49987]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death keepes no Calender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death keepes no Calender.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2701]]></link><description><![CDATA[An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48443]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is going to go wherever it (can) make money. I don't know how elected officials would feel about expanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is going to go wherever it (can) make money. I don't know how elected officials would feel about expanding the city limits at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers mark  As a shrine where the sunlight serves, though the blown clouds hover, Sark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If folly were griefe every house would weepe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49508]]></link><description><![CDATA[If folly were griefe every house would weepe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65476]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15962]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall!  Gloomy was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall!  Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow   He would be coy, and would not love at all;    Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought,     Than love united to a jealous thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23155</guid></item></channel></rss>