<?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[Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the love of God, folks, don't do this at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/949]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the love of God, folks, don't do this at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The obscenities of recent days may well be designed toundermine the peace process. They must not be allowed to doso, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The obscenities of recent days may well be designed toundermine the peace process. They must not be allowed to doso,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52725]]></link><description><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2169]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like a train wreck. They can't look away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37150]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like a train wreck. They can't look away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49319]]></link><description><![CDATA[He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12486]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're primarily in the business of pulling oil out of the ground, so it's generally a benefit to them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37549]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're primarily in the business of pulling oil out of the ground, so it's generally a benefit to them,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dad was a pretty poor guy, he didn't have a whole lot of money. He always wanted something for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38826]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dad was a pretty poor guy, he didn't have a whole lot of money. He always wanted something for my brother and myself, some kind of business. He'd asked the owners of this course to call him if it ever came up for sale, and one day, they called. I had a scholarship offer to Ohio State and my dad said, 'Son, what do you want to do, cut grass or go to school?' I said, what do you want me to do, Dad? He said, 'Well, I can't afford any help.' I said, 'No problem, Dad, I'll help you cut grass.' Looking back, I think I made the right decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian religion finds expression thus, in the love of those who love Christ, more comprehensibly and accessibly than in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian religion finds expression thus, in the love of those who love Christ, more comprehensibly and accessibly than in metaphysical or ethical statements. It is an experience rather than a conclusion, a way of life rather than an ideology; [it is] grasped through the imagination rather than understood through the mind, belonging to the realm of spiritual rather than intellectual perception; reaching quite beyond the dimension of words and ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are the only animals who eat themselves to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/743]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are the only animals who eat themselves to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19487]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spend in pure converse our eternal day; Think each in each, immediately wise;  Learn all we lacked before; hear, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spend in pure converse our eternal day; Think each in each, immediately wise;  Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say   What this tumultuous body now denies;    And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;     And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series of testimonies on the Scriptures:   A loving Personality dominates the Bible, walking among the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series of testimonies on the Scriptures:   A loving Personality dominates the Bible, walking among the trees of the garden and breathing fragrance over every scene. Always a living Person is present, speaking, pleading, loving, working, and manifesting himself whenever and wherever his people have the receptivity necessary to receive the manifestation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography is truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography is truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59530]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The financial climate is the worst it's been in 25 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15703]]></link><description><![CDATA[The financial climate is the worst it's been in 25 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is literature in a hurry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is literature in a hurry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top presenters have total control of their fears. They make fear their slave, not the master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Top presenters have total control of their fears. They make fear their slave, not the master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But shapes that come not at an earthly call, Will not depart when mortal voices bid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60887]]></link><description><![CDATA[But shapes that come not at an earthly call, Will not depart when mortal voices bid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You rub the sore When you should bring the plaster! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26724]]></link><description><![CDATA[You rub the sore When you should bring the plaster!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23777]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11719]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is thrust upon us, and we must take it whether we will or not. Happiest is he who takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is thrust upon us, and we must take it whether we will or not. Happiest is he who takes it most completely and most joyfully, but also most seriously and with the deepest sense of its dangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19548]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John has the ability, he is a slippery player, he is able to use good speed and he has a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38083]]></link><description><![CDATA[John has the ability, he is a slippery player, he is able to use good speed and he has a great change of direction. He has a knack of getting himself to the goal and is also a very good feeder so he is making others better. When John is at his best, there are not many players that are of his ability in the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62047]]></link><description><![CDATA[High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave her to Heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,  To prick and sting her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave her to Heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,  To prick and sting her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to get into the habit of thinking about my career because when it comes down to it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5252]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to get into the habit of thinking about my career because when it comes down to it, it's not that important. I could die tomorrow and the world would go on. I don't want to separate myself from the rest of the world. If the world is not going too good, I'm part of that. I'll be happy to take the blame. I'm along for the ride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61603]]></link><description><![CDATA[And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has many years of experience in this field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28967]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has many years of experience in this field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth condemns; maturity condones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth condemns; maturity condones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news; give to a gracious message  An host ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news; give to a gracious message  An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell   Themselves when they be felt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. - The Man in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. - The Man in the Water, 1994.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare stand too near the cross in case they got involved) into heroes who would stop at nothing? A swindle? Hallucination? Spooky nonsense in a darkened room? Or Somebody quietly doing what He said He'd do -- walk right through death? What do YOU think?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64615]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for ityet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22627]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for ityet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22627</guid></item></channel></rss>