<?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 spark can start a fire that burns the entire prairie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62812]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spark can start a fire that burns the entire prairie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57724]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44776]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3671]]></link><description><![CDATA[People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the quarter's financials are important, the stock performance keys off the PeopleSoft decision. A resolution will be positive one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35286]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the quarter's financials are important, the stock performance keys off the PeopleSoft decision. A resolution will be positive one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56866]]></link><description><![CDATA[In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm finding that people think it's a choice, for me to have Woody. He's my best buddy, I'm never lonely, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32550]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm finding that people think it's a choice, for me to have Woody. He's my best buddy, I'm never lonely, and he really helps me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have a lot more people employed (in Northwest Arkansas) and they?re a whole lot more food insecure and hungry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33387]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have a lot more people employed (in Northwest Arkansas) and they?re a whole lot more food insecure and hungry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against diseases here the strongest fence, Is the defensive vertue, abstinence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against diseases here the strongest fence, Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live an idle burden to the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20335]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live an idle burden to the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8204]]></link><description><![CDATA[No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are quite close to a common definition of safe harbor principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32869]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are quite close to a common definition of safe harbor principles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger knows no friend but its feeder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way  Until the peacock led him in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46001]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way  Until the peacock led him in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sundaies observe: think when the bells do chime, 'Tis angel's musick; therefore come not late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sundaies observe: think when the bells do chime, 'Tis angel's musick; therefore come not late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The National Assembly may prod everyone to do things differently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The National Assembly may prod everyone to do things differently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning makes an experience more positive. We played with some positive energy today, and with some intensity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning makes an experience more positive. We played with some positive energy today, and with some intensity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't get acting jobs because of my looks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scandal is the press agent of old age ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scandal is the press agent of old age]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to come to terms with the realization that one small man could change the course of history with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36638]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to come to terms with the realization that one small man could change the course of history with just a couple of shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41103]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge- they were all messages of love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I know Thee, Saviour, Who Thou art: Jesus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I know Thee, Saviour, Who Thou art: Jesus, the feeble sinner's friend! Nor wilt Thou with the night depart, But stay and love me to the end. Thy mercies never shall remove; Thy nature and Thy name is Love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How does Johnny Cash say it? I'm in pretty good shape ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42009]]></link><description><![CDATA[How does Johnny Cash say it? I'm in pretty good shape ...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very large hurricane, a very powerful hurricane. Wherever you have the eye of this system, you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40857]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very large hurricane, a very powerful hurricane. Wherever you have the eye of this system, you are going to have a potentially catastrophic disaster there. This is the worst-case scenario for a hurricane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The testimony of the New Testament cannot be lightly disregarded, nor can the claims of Christ be airily dismissed. Many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The testimony of the New Testament cannot be lightly disregarded, nor can the claims of Christ be airily dismissed. Many otherwise intelligent people have never read with adult attention either the four Gospels or the Letters of the New Testament. When they so do, to my certain knowledge they not infrequently become converted. Indeed, I know of no adult who has seriously studied the New Testament and rejected the stories of Christ as mythical or the evidence of changed lives in the Letters as mere fabrication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm spiritually close to you and pray for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42343]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm spiritually close to you and pray for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt we had to stop them on their first possession of the second half and score on our first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt we had to stop them on their first possession of the second half and score on our first possession. But we gave away scoring opportunities and we didn't even score at all in the third quarter. It was a good season but we ran out of gas tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066  If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066  If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally -- every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seriously looking at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30775]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seriously looking at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11553]]></link><description><![CDATA[All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear,  Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54908]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear,  Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire   In all things which our needful faith require.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance, Each man, unknowing, great,  Should frame life so that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17093]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance, Each man, unknowing, great,  Should frame life so that at some future hour   Fact and his dreamings meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3150]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was in the top five in our golf team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30368]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was in the top five in our golf team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for his temple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27254]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one pain I often feel, which you will never know. It is caused by the absence of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/136]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one pain I often feel, which you will never know. It is caused by the absence of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When boasting ends, there dignity begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12283]]></link><description><![CDATA[When boasting ends, there dignity begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19420]]></link><description><![CDATA[More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19420</guid></item></channel></rss>