<?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[We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have you. A lover and a friend. You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25726]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have you. A lover and a friend. You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I breathe. Without you, life wouldn't be the same. Please don't ever go away. And if you go, then don't forget to take me with you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have punished me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62636]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have punished me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that Iran will not become an obstacle to peace and security in Iraq. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40143]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that Iran will not become an obstacle to peace and security in Iraq.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I grabbed his arm and twisted it up behind his head and said 'Now who's asking the questions?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whole Foods has become, obviously, a Wall Street darling in the recent past and for good reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whole Foods has become, obviously, a Wall Street darling in the recent past and for good reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had the guts to invite someone like this and put on a show. And to do it, it takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29938]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had the guts to invite someone like this and put on a show. And to do it, it takes the whole town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is that they get allexcited about nothing and then marry him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is that they get allexcited about nothing and then marry him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe this payola scandal may represent the most widespread and flagrant violation of any FCC rules in the history ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe this payola scandal may represent the most widespread and flagrant violation of any FCC rules in the history of American broadcasting. Mr. Spitzer's office has collected a mountain of evidence on the potentially illegal promotion practices of not only Sony BMG, but also other major record companies, independent promoters and several of the largest radio station groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great intellects are skeptical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great intellects are skeptical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  God, though present everywhere, has His special residence, as being a pure Spirit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  God, though present everywhere, has His special residence, as being a pure Spirit, in our minds -- "In Him we live, and move, and have our being". He is somewhere in the recesses of our soul, in the springs of our existence, a light in that mysterious region of our nature where the wishes, feelings, thoughts, and emotions take their earliest rise. The mind is a sanctuary, in the center of which the Lord sits enthroned, the lamp of consciousness burning before Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched--my eyeballs burn,  I scent no flowery gust;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23564]]></link><description><![CDATA[What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched--my eyeballs burn,  I scent no flowery gust;   But faint the flagging zephyr springs,    With dry Macadam on its wings,     And turns me "dust to dust."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought it was an earthquake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought it was an earthquake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4461]]></link><description><![CDATA[My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. [Listing what body parts he has broken].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak;  . . . .   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56596]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak;  . . . .   They are slaves who dare not be    In the right with two or three.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57532]]></link><description><![CDATA[One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for football? (when asked if the abnormal number of Longhorn injuries this season resulted from poor physical conditioning)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What exactly HAS the military done to get to the bottom of this? They launched an investigation that lasted, apparently, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38660]]></link><description><![CDATA[What exactly HAS the military done to get to the bottom of this? They launched an investigation that lasted, apparently, a matter of hours. And now they tell us there's nothing they can do, and nothing they're going to do, about the outright racist abuse of Muslims by U.S. troops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55913]]></link><description><![CDATA[I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to forecast, forecast often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15701]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to forecast, forecast often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51047]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the oak, then you may expect a soak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61189]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9177]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45991]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fish adores the bait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fish adores the bait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot have the success without the failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15751]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot have the success without the failures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16380]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deception follows on the heels of deception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deception follows on the heels of deception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am mortal. I am born to love and to suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing you can do when you've made a mistake is exactly what she's done: Admit it, admit it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing you can do when you've made a mistake is exactly what she's done: Admit it, admit it soon and put yourself at the mercy of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a short tournament and we have to stay humble about it. It's baseball and anything can happen. We feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a short tournament and we have to stay humble about it. It's baseball and anything can happen. We feel very good about the group we got here. We actually have the group we wanted and they seem to have the special love to play for their country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34709]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24555]]></link><description><![CDATA[He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable tocomplain about what you have than it is to ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable tocomplain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving: Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wasting!  Black manhood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving: Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wasting!  Black manhood comes when riotous guilty living   Hands thee the cup that shall be death in tasting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.  You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this provision became law, it could literally lead to the privatization of millions of acres of public land, including ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32773]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this provision became law, it could literally lead to the privatization of millions of acres of public land, including national park and national forest land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others again, perhaps truly awakened by the Spirit of God to devote themselves wholly to piety and the service of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others again, perhaps truly awakened by the Spirit of God to devote themselves wholly to piety and the service of God, yet making too much haste to have the glory of saints, the elements of fallen nature -- selfishness, envy, pride, and wrath -- could secretly go along with them. For to seek for eminence and significancy in grace is but like seeking for eminence and significancy in nature. And the old man can relish glory and distinction in religion as well as in common life, and will be content to undergo as many labours, pains, and self-denials for the sake of religious, as for the sake of secular glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes adversity impels a person to greater heights, and sometimes it provides the opportunity for that person to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes adversity impels a person to greater heights, and sometimes it provides the opportunity for that person to be a blessing in the lives of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13722]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13722</guid></item></channel></rss>