<?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[Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of people out there who would love to have that law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31342]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of people out there who would love to have that law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination rules the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r, Can give the heart a cheerful hour  When health is lost. Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r, Can give the heart a cheerful hour  When health is lost. Be timely wise;   With health all taste of pleasure flies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot to take in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29072]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot to take in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  The church has severely under-estimated the fundamental antagonism between Christianity and contemporary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6435]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  The church has severely under-estimated the fundamental antagonism between Christianity and contemporary neo-pagan values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will most likely find a tremendous difference in opinion from certain Ohio universities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36495]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will most likely find a tremendous difference in opinion from certain Ohio universities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we showed a lot of poise as a team. We stayed together when Colorado State made their run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41040]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we showed a lot of poise as a team. We stayed together when Colorado State made their run at us. The guys hung in there and it's a great win for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough, A-top on the topmost twig--which the pluckers forgot, somehow--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough, A-top on the topmost twig--which the pluckers forgot, somehow--  Forgot it not, nay, but got it not, for none could get it till now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ajax the great . . . Himself a host. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ajax the great . . . Himself a host.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42817]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before it arrives! [Lat., Nil est nec miserius nec stultius quam praetimere. Quae ista dementia est, malum suum antecedere!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64442]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3766</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[Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a late-night scene in every town, and everyone has something going on, ... I've heard good stories about (Syracuse); ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32854]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a late-night scene in every town, and everyone has something going on, ... I've heard good stories about (Syracuse); this is a very good party town, a good drinking place. I definitely would like to come back and check it out further. Do some more research, as I call it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the mostintelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21228]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the mostintelligent, but the one most responsive to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key issue that the court will focus on in the case is whether political gerrymandering is constitutional. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key issue that the court will focus on in the case is whether political gerrymandering is constitutional.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part he gets all the line calls right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42143]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part he gets all the line calls right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American Idol Rewind combines all of the characteristics of elite off-network weekend successes, including being a smash hit in primetime, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33673]]></link><description><![CDATA[American Idol Rewind combines all of the characteristics of elite off-network weekend successes, including being a smash hit in primetime, having dual male and female appeal, and enjoying substantial momentum going into syndication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was the whole transition thing, me being the new guy. You know, you win and your everybody's friend. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34502]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was the whole transition thing, me being the new guy. You know, you win and your everybody's friend. You lose, and it's all your fault. I'm glad I'm on the good end of things. I could've been the sacrificial lamb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes no friends who never made a foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63527]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes no friends who never made a foe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To shoot at crows is powder flung away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10771]]></link><description><![CDATA[To shoot at crows is powder flung away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   What is the Christian? Everywhere the man who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   What is the Christian? Everywhere the man who, so far as he comprehends Jesus Christ, so far as he can get any knowledge of Him, is His servant -- the man who makes Christ a teacher of his intelligence and the guide of his soul -- the man who obeys Christ as far as he has been able to understand him... I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as a Christian; and Jesus Christ, I am sure, in these old days recognized His followers even if they came after Him with the blindest sight, with the most imperfect recognition and acknowledgment of what He was and of what He could do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49992]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huge amounts of money have disappeared. In return we got nothing but scraps of metal, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Huge amounts of money have disappeared. In return we got nothing but scraps of metal,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive, by discord the greatest are destroyed. [Lat., Concordia res parvae crescunt, discordia maximae dilabantur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60143]]></link><description><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive, by discord the greatest are destroyed. [Lat., Concordia res parvae crescunt, discordia maximae dilabantur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66448]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, within the leafy shade, Those bright blue eggs together laid!  On me the chance-discovered sight   Gleamed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, within the leafy shade, Those bright blue eggs together laid!  On me the chance-discovered sight   Gleamed like a vision of delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22072]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58822]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Figures won't lie, but liars will figure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch sand. [Go not out of your depth.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch sand. [Go not out of your depth.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The place is all awave with trees, Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded,  Acacias having drunk the lees   Of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The place is all awave with trees, Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded,  Acacias having drunk the lees   Of the night-dew, fain headed,    And wan, grey olive-woods, which seem     The fittest foliage for a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18416]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18416</guid></item></channel></rss>