<?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[Tom.(New coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets, when asked how he pronounced his name, 1966) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tom.(New coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets, when asked how he pronounced his name, 1966)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kelvin knew nothing about ground [fighting], and that's why he lost. His striking is good and as a fighter, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kelvin knew nothing about ground [fighting], and that's why he lost. His striking is good and as a fighter, he can only become better. He's only going to get better, and this will be a very big experience for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Gay panic' is insidious. It is corrupt because it appeals to a public that is used to discarding and disregarding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53996]]></link><description><![CDATA['Gay panic' is insidious. It is corrupt because it appeals to a public that is used to discarding and disregarding gay lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth. -Chuck Norris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth. -Chuck Norris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possibly one of the largest thefts in history, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28940]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possibly one of the largest thefts in history,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enabling multiple service providers to be able to interoperate, we think, is a tremendous opportunity for the industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enabling multiple service providers to be able to interoperate, we think, is a tremendous opportunity for the industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a universe within himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a universe within himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1907]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion and atheism will both survive it [the musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion and atheism will both survive it [the musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him, ... does that mean we're not democratic? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28529]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him, ... does that mean we're not democratic?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentlemen do not read each other's mail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chickenpox is not necessarily a benign disease or a childhood rite of passage. We don't recommend parents expose their children. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chickenpox is not necessarily a benign disease or a childhood rite of passage. We don't recommend parents expose their children. The vaccine is best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4517]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye may not offer of that which is another man's, or that which ye are entrusted withal, and not your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When love once pleads admission to our hearts, (In spite of all the virtue we can boast),  The woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25610]]></link><description><![CDATA[When love once pleads admission to our hearts, (In spite of all the virtue we can boast),  The woman that deliberates is lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16280]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke, Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51083]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke, Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53827]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56605]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36461]]></link><description><![CDATA[One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16166]]></link><description><![CDATA[By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope we can plug into your efforts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42291]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope we can plug into your efforts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last night I discovered a new form of oral contraceptive. I asked a girl to go to bed with me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last night I discovered a new form of oral contraceptive. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution; neither is it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46987]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ripest fruit first falls. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ripest fruit first falls. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  Each of us individually has risen into moral life from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  Each of us individually has risen into moral life from a mode of being which was purely natural; in other words, each of us also has fallen -- fallen, presumably in ways determined by his natural constitution, yet certainly, as conscience assures us, in ways for which we are morally answerable, and to which, in the moral constitution of the world, consequences attach which we must recognise as our due. They are not only results of our action, but results which that action has merited; and there is no moral hope for us unless we accept them as such.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. [Lat., Haud igitur ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. [Lat., Haud igitur redit ad Nihilum res ulla, sed omnes  Discidio redeunt in corpora materiai.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possiblylive long enough to make them all yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22235]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possiblylive long enough to make them all yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery will get you everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery will get you everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1093]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd by all that is sweetest in life   Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten in strife!    But if, out of humour, and hungry, alone     A man should sit down to dinner, each one      Of the dishes which the cook chooses to spoil       With a horrible mixture of garlic and oil,        The chances are ten against one, I must own,         He gets up as ill-tempered as when he sat down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An uncalled-for defence becomes a positive accusation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50547]]></link><description><![CDATA[An uncalled-for defence becomes a positive accusation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played really good as a team. We always pull together when we need to, and rely on each other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29043]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played really good as a team. We always pull together when we need to, and rely on each other well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll miss him, but it creates the opportunity for someone else to come up and take his place in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42091]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll miss him, but it creates the opportunity for someone else to come up and take his place in the side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, on the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, on the other hand, laughs with demonic mirth, is possessed of a sardonic wit, and his eyes hold a glint of wicked bemusement. The farthest God, in his popular image, ever strays from sobriety is a beneficent smile. Satan sniggers with fiendish scorn at God, who sits in his ivory tower emitting nary a chuckle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man I am, cross'd with adversity. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man I am, cross'd with adversity. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55337</guid></item></channel></rss>