<?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[Continuing a short series on authenticity:   "Prayer in the Name of Christ", though it is essentially a mystical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on authenticity:   "Prayer in the Name of Christ", though it is essentially a mystical phrase, also contains a surface meaning which is very valuable to those who grasp and apply it. The more Jesus becomes our standard and inspiration in prayer, the more confident we may be of a favorable hearing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realized that ritual will always mean throwing away something; Destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53477]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realized that ritual will always mean throwing away something; Destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's probably the third game they've won for us this year. The crowd wouldn't let us quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32541]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's probably the third game they've won for us this year. The crowd wouldn't let us quit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-Sir To. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55746]]></link><description><![CDATA[-Sir To.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25592]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32502]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14767]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to develop the female phenotype; the mammalian male ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56841]]></link><description><![CDATA[...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to develop the female phenotype; the mammalian male is essentially a female that has been exposed to androgenic steroid hormones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26631]]></link><description><![CDATA[The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43613]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true art of government consists in not governing too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true art of government consists in not governing too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The DTI identified a weakness in the supply chain where universities and research institutes had no way of going from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37018]]></link><description><![CDATA[The DTI identified a weakness in the supply chain where universities and research institutes had no way of going from proof-of-concept to prototyping and early manufacturing stages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope people will walk away with the idea that this was a very frequent act of violence, ... We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37024]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope people will walk away with the idea that this was a very frequent act of violence, ... We won't be able to deny it any longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40885]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46552]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will?  For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will?  For if she will, she will, you may depend on't;   And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eating the bitter bread of banishment. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eating the bitter bread of banishment. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought Brian played a good game, but it was same old thing: He just can't stay out of foul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28191]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought Brian played a good game, but it was same old thing: He just can't stay out of foul trouble. When he came out of the game, we stopped attacking the basket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness and wisdom is the pathway leading to GOD'S LOVE! -Clara. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness and wisdom is the pathway leading to GOD'S LOVE! -Clara.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22687]]></link><description><![CDATA[The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the pen is mightier than the sword then how can actions speak louder than words? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/551]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the pen is mightier than the sword then how can actions speak louder than words?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year, we had a shortage of 2-year-old birds from the poor hatch in 2003, so we didn't have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year, we had a shortage of 2-year-old birds from the poor hatch in 2003, so we didn't have a surplus of those birds to carry over. The fact that there was a shortage of 2-year-olds to hunt last year meant more pressure on the older birds, so that cuts down the carry over on those, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. -Caroline Schoeder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. -Caroline Schoeder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.  [Fr., La parfaite raison fuit toute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53102]]></link><description><![CDATA[All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.  [Fr., La parfaite raison fuit toute extremite,   Et veut que l'on soit sage avec sobriete.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Pentecost  From his baptism until his return to Galilee, Jesus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Pentecost  From his baptism until his return to Galilee, Jesus lived in the company of the disciples of the Baptist. It was there that he received the first public witness of his Messianic role and found his first followers. The gospel was to be rooted in John's teaching of asceticism and regeneration. But we see from the start that the gospel of Jesus was to be quite different. To the baptism of water would be added the baptism of the Spirit, and the new message was to be addressed to all. The widening of the circle of hearers and converts, which had preoccupied John, was to expand still further with the gospel of Jesus. Of the hundreds of thousands of Jews, the Essenes only regarded as saved a few thousand elect. Jesus was soon to offer the Covenant of God to all men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very tough to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30335]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very tough to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you get closer to the election, the likelihood that Congress is going to be able to pass legislation, particularly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34650]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you get closer to the election, the likelihood that Congress is going to be able to pass legislation, particularly on what might be viewed as partisan or difficult issues, diminishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What this is about, I think the homosexual agenda and the Log Cabin Republicans, they're the ones at the center ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31890]]></link><description><![CDATA[What this is about, I think the homosexual agenda and the Log Cabin Republicans, they're the ones at the center of this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65605]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20223]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm voted player of the week one week and the next I'm sitting on the bench. It becomes very tempting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35175]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm voted player of the week one week and the next I'm sitting on the bench. It becomes very tempting to look ahead and I'm doing that right now. I have to make the best decision for myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have any hard statistics yet on all the damage done by Hurricane Katrina. Apparently the damage was minimal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35309]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have any hard statistics yet on all the damage done by Hurricane Katrina. Apparently the damage was minimal in the major cotton-producing areas of Mississippi and Louisiana.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what youshouldn't-it just keeps you from enjoying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21712]]></link><description><![CDATA[The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what youshouldn't-it just keeps you from enjoying it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44395]]></link><description><![CDATA['Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something must be allowed to custom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something must be allowed to custom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moe was like their child in many ways, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moe was like their child in many ways,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They condemn that which they cannot comprehend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48883]]></link><description><![CDATA[They condemn that which they cannot comprehend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valencia has done an excellent job of building and guiding a very thoughtful and effective diversity and inclusion strategy at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valencia has done an excellent job of building and guiding a very thoughtful and effective diversity and inclusion strategy at our company. Her long history of service at BellSouth and in the community combined with her breadth of business knowledge makes her a tremendous asset to this Board.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35093</guid></item></channel></rss>