<?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[A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it's better to be thoroughly sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3889]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it's better to be thoroughly sure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21127]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Larry Adams, 33, has been confined to a room in University Medical Center since April, when he received an artificial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40395]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Larry Adams, 33, has been confined to a room in University Medical Center since April, when he received an artificial heart. The heart is connected to a 350-pound machine, which is about the size of a dishwasher, and six feet of hose hooks the machine to pumps in Adams' chest.] I've just got to sit and wait, ... Everywhere I go, engineers have to push the box around with me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12234]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44351]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was very, very challenging. There was never a doubt that it was important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34967]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was very, very challenging. There was never a doubt that it was important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61108]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know it's silly to say it, but I love 29th Street and I love Jack Ruby. Moonstruck I liked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32622]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know it's silly to say it, but I love 29th Street and I love Jack Ruby. Moonstruck I liked, but my character was troublesome to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a morning raine leave not your journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49250]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a morning raine leave not your journey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27319]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was real surprised. The ref said I did it intentionally, but there's no way. That's sad the ref would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41042]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was real surprised. The ref said I did it intentionally, but there's no way. That's sad the ref would impact the game like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's metal more attractive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's metal more attractive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give thy thoughts no tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give thy thoughts no tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66735]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ant and the Dove AN ANT went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, andbeing carried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ant and the Dove AN ANT went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, andbeing carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point ofdrowning. A Dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water pluckeda leaf and let it fall into the stream close to her. The Antclimbed onto it and floated in safety to the bank. Shortlyafterwards a birdcatcher came and stood under the tree, and laidhis lime-twigs for the Dove, which sat in the branches. The Ant,perceiving his design, stung him in the foot. In pain thebirdcatcher threw down the twigs, and the noise made the Dovetake wing.One good turn deserves another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63848]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like one that on a lonesome road  Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like one that on a lonesome road  Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on,  And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend  Doth close behind him tread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how thy worth with manners may I sing When thou art all the better part of me?  What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62340]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how thy worth with manners may I sing When thou art all the better part of me?  What can mine own praise to mine own self bring,   And what is't but mine own when I praise thee?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58502]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where are you going to find somebody who doesn't know us in Hernando County? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where are you going to find somebody who doesn't know us in Hernando County?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love makes a good eye squint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love makes a good eye squint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[William Eggleston in the Real World ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42428]]></link><description><![CDATA[William Eggleston in the Real World]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12388]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As innocent as a new-laid egg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20952]]></link><description><![CDATA[As innocent as a new-laid egg.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/393]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cheerful loser is the winner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cheerful loser is the winner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9893]]></link><description><![CDATA[A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good news is that after seeing very significant reduced spending overall, companies are projecting a slight recovery for 2003. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39801]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good news is that after seeing very significant reduced spending overall, companies are projecting a slight recovery for 2003.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3463]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus  The moment we make up our minds that we are going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus  The moment we make up our minds that we are going on with this determination to exalt God overall, we step out of the world's parade... We acquire a new viewpoint; a new and different psychology will be formed within us; a new power will begin to surprise us by its upsurgings and its outgoings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6943]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder the source of which is beyond all reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it,  As being loth to wear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it,  As being loth to wear it out,   And therefore bore it not about;    Unless on holy days or so,     As men their best apparel do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The record shows very long lapses of time when there's no movement on the case at all. That is inexcusable. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The record shows very long lapses of time when there's no movement on the case at all. That is inexcusable. Somebody's responsible for that. This is nine years now of a man's life lost by no fault of his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66685]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65972]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shows that we build, when we should but entomb us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shows that we build, when we should but entomb us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The period which marked the enormous statistical success of the revival churches was also the period which saw membership standards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The period which marked the enormous statistical success of the revival churches was also the period which saw membership standards decline almost to the vanishing point. Today the [various denominations] don't even have enough authority to keep their members out of mob violence, let alone hold them to difficult standards of theological or ethical or moral excellence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we showed a lot of poise as a team. We stayed together when Colorado State made their run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41040]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we showed a lot of poise as a team. We stayed together when Colorado State made their run at us. The guys hung in there and it's a great win for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61433]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66435</guid></item></channel></rss>