<?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[I had started writing the fourth Whit Mosley book, ... I was 40 pages into it, and then Dutton asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37558]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had started writing the fourth Whit Mosley book, ... I was 40 pages into it, and then Dutton asked me if I would consider writing a standalone. The series novel can do a lot to build a loyal readership, but the standalone is sometimes easier for the publisher to market to a broader audience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17800]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell:.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One kiss breaches the distance between friendship and love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16847]]></link><description><![CDATA[One kiss breaches the distance between friendship and love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st  But keep that count'nance still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st  But keep that count'nance still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started out with a 'no.' This is not going to change. We had the burden of proving to them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30666]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started out with a 'no.' This is not going to change. We had the burden of proving to them this was a good decision to make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Page regrets having uttered an obscenity in open court. Sixty days to serve in jail is disproportionately severe relative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Page regrets having uttered an obscenity in open court. Sixty days to serve in jail is disproportionately severe relative to the transgression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point we are comfortable with our relationship with the CDC and confident that they will inform us if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39582]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point we are comfortable with our relationship with the CDC and confident that they will inform us if the situation changes that mandates a different approach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I can't" isn't a reason to give up, it's a reason to try harder ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53083]]></link><description><![CDATA["I can't" isn't a reason to give up, it's a reason to try harder]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an absolutely fantastic end to the mission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31072]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an absolutely fantastic end to the mission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move and trees to speak; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood. Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;  Augures and understood relations have   By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth    The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12847]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on sin:  It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on sin:  It is appalling to think of a power so strong that it can annihilate with the irresistible force of its grinding heel; but it is inspiring to consider an Almightiness that transforms the works of evil into the hand-maidens of righteousness and converts the sinner into the saint. And it is this latter power which eternal Love possesses and exhibits. He persistently dwells in the sinner until the sinner wakes up in His likeness and is satisfied with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hire tea by the tea bag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hire tea by the tea bag.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23396]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3661]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's good about the Lehigh Valley is that we are not dependent on a single industry. We now have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39400]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's good about the Lehigh Valley is that we are not dependent on a single industry. We now have a variety of companies here, and we're not relying on the former Bethlehem Steel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1067]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66379]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that will to bed go sober, Falls with the leaf still in October. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58867]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that will to bed go sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30983]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my finest moment, when all of my fantastic dreams have come true...I will be utterly and completely alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59064]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my finest moment, when all of my fantastic dreams have come true...I will be utterly and completely alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what wethink will make us happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what wethink will make us happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2372]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the fight between you and the world, back the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15657]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the fight between you and the world, back the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies, Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies, Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13047]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two ill meales make the third a glutton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two ill meales make the third a glutton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43307]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Sane man will dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11029]]></link><description><![CDATA[No Sane man will dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23227]]></link><description><![CDATA[No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This guelder rose, at far too slight a beck Of the wind, will toss about her flower-apples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54424]]></link><description><![CDATA[This guelder rose, at far too slight a beck Of the wind, will toss about her flower-apples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until divers go down and actually examine the rigs and engineers can make estimates on the repair times, we just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until divers go down and actually examine the rigs and engineers can make estimates on the repair times, we just won't know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7321]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God... I prejudice not an external test and call, which was at first and shall be again in force at the resurrection of the churches, ... but in the present state of things I cannot but be humbly bold to say that I know no other true sender but the most Holy Spirit. And when He sends, His messengers will go, His prophets will prophesy, though all the world should forbid them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64221]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54981]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should always be in love. This is the reason why one should never marry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25903]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should always be in love. This is the reason why one should never marry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10523]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44423]]></link><description><![CDATA[One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt not but God who sits on high, Thy secret prayers can hear;  When a dead wall thus cunningly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt not but God who sits on high, Thy secret prayers can hear;  When a dead wall thus cunningly   Conveys soft whispers to the ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time Republicans spend money and it isn't against Democrats, it's a distraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time Republicans spend money and it isn't against Democrats, it's a distraction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17603]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17603</guid></item></channel></rss>