<?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[It was a gutsy call. Somebody's got to get through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28382]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a gutsy call. Somebody's got to get through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28382</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[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597 Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 1. the ministry of holding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597 Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 1. the ministry of holding one's tongue   Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words... Thus it must be a decisive rule of every Christian fellowship that each individual is prohibited from saying much that occurs to him. This prohibition does not include the personal word of advice and guidance. But to speak about a brother is forbidden, even under the cloak of help and goodwill; for it is precisely in this guise that the spirit of hatred among brothers creeps in when it is seeking to create mischief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is one -- one for all men and for all occupations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough voters to win the next election ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough voters to win the next election]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He laughs best who laughs last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24215]]></link><description><![CDATA[He laughs best who laughs last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This state followed the federal government's lead and totally deregulated our electricity markets. If FERC accepts this settlement and thereby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40281]]></link><description><![CDATA[This state followed the federal government's lead and totally deregulated our electricity markets. If FERC accepts this settlement and thereby punishes Maine for restructuring, it will be a clear message that they have abandoned the nation's experiment with electric power sector deregulation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47988]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62322]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, and tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were ten lepers healed, and only one turned back to give thanks, but it is to be noticed that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6893]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were ten lepers healed, and only one turned back to give thanks, but it is to be noticed that our Lord did not recall His gift from the other nine because of their lack of gratitude. When we begin to lessen our acts of kindness and helpfulness because we think those who receive do not properly appreciate what is done for them, it is time to question our own motives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the boat, we are the sea, I sail in you, you sail in me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4412]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the boat, we are the sea, I sail in you, you sail in me]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens in China and Vietnam is not only going to affect China and Vietnam, but it will affect neighboring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36954]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens in China and Vietnam is not only going to affect China and Vietnam, but it will affect neighboring countries. And, I think as has been demonstrated by the movement of the virus that in fact Europe, Eastern Europe has been infected. We are quite concernedÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦given the migratory paths of birds, we are quite concerned about Africa, although Africa has not been hit yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13167]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife had been listening to the game on the radio back in Toronto, so you can imagine she was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37141]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife had been listening to the game on the radio back in Toronto, so you can imagine she was pretty upset. I did get to talk to her in the ambulance, so that made things better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50919]]></link><description><![CDATA[All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are what their mothers made them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are what their mothers made them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do love My country's good with a respect more tender,  More holy and profound, then mine own life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do love My country's good with a respect more tender,  More holy and profound, then mine own life,   My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase,    And treasure of my loins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a Jack of all trades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50446]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a Jack of all trades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11329]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59506]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Zephyr only breathe And with her tresses play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Zephyr only breathe And with her tresses play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day,  When from his tomb ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day,  When from his tomb the imprisoned God,   Like the strong sunrise, broke away?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30720]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He loved the twilight that surrounds The border-land of old romance;  Where glitter hauberk, helm, and lance,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54355]]></link><description><![CDATA[He loved the twilight that surrounds The border-land of old romance;  Where glitter hauberk, helm, and lance,   And banner waves, and trumpet sounds,    And ladies ride with hawk on wrist,     And mighty warriors sweep along,      Magnified by the purple mist,       The dusk of centuries and of song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not. [Lat., Tam deest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42746]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not. [Lat., Tam deest avaro quod habet, quam quod non habet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3575]]></link><description><![CDATA[This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51339]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5810]]></link><description><![CDATA[To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of the heavens, not as it is: because that even we, though the well beloved of thy Son, yet it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. He looked through the lattice of our flesh and he spake us fair, yea, he set us on fire, and we hasten on his scent. But when he shall appear, then shall we be like him, for we shall see him as he is: as he is, Lord, will our sight be, though the time be not yet.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine June 19, 1996 Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  Many we have who plead themselves to be Christians. This might be allowed them, would they not do such things as the Christian religion abhors. But this is the least part of their claim. They will also be the only Christians, all others who differ from them -- however so falsely called -- being only a drove of unbelievers, hastening unto hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to close it again on something solid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to close it again on something solid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. -James ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24462]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. -James L. Fisher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex in space is not just a good idea, it\'s survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex in space is not just a good idea, it\'s survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66859</guid></item></channel></rss>