<?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[Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of so knowing Christ that they have Him in them saving them, they lie wasting themselves in soul-sickening self-examination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of so knowing Christ that they have Him in them saving them, they lie wasting themselves in soul-sickening self-examination as to whether they are believers, whether they are really trusting in the Atonement, whether they are truly sorry for their sins -- the way to madness of the brain and despair of the heart... Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said, Do it! or once abstained because He said, Do not do it! It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My occupation is solely that of a painter.No one can argue with pictures(re descriptions in Uncle Tom's Cabin). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62387]]></link><description><![CDATA[My occupation is solely that of a painter.No one can argue with pictures(re descriptions in Uncle Tom's Cabin).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may help me set up a golf course, the drainage and that stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42419]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may help me set up a golf course, the drainage and that stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. In brief, sir, study what you most effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17142]]></link><description><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. In brief, sir, study what you most effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51147]]></link><description><![CDATA[He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26718]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is borne of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is borne of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3467]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you'll just be the thirteenth clown]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can say what you want about his stuff, but his makeup is off the charts. And he has great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34468]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can say what you want about his stuff, but his makeup is off the charts. And he has great stuff. That's what I told him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to do any of the legwork themselves. They've spent their whole life working and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37085]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to do any of the legwork themselves. They've spent their whole life working and doing everything and now they are retired and want to be utterly pampered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40157]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear authors! suit your topics to your strength, And ponder well your subject, and its length;  Nor lift your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear authors! suit your topics to your strength, And ponder well your subject, and its length;  Nor lift your lad, before you're quite aware   What weight your shoulders will, or will not, bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to the tapes, my father, then about as run-of-the-mill as Joe Blow himself, didn't want to see the thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4618]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to the tapes, my father, then about as run-of-the-mill as Joe Blow himself, didn't want to see the thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17453]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coolest f-word ever deserves a fucking shout! I mean, why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists? Out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coolest f-word ever deserves a fucking shout! I mean, why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists? Out of respect for those who fought for this. I mean, look around, we have this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite frankly, [the bid process] is as intense as any pursuit of a telecom contract I've ever been through representing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite frankly, [the bid process] is as intense as any pursuit of a telecom contract I've ever been through representing BellSouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring;  Sea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring;  Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give,   And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1701]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21890]]></link><description><![CDATA[My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52744]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19054]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're there before it's over, you're on time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52533]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're there before it's over, you're on time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pulled it out. It's too hard to handle that whole thing right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33630]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pulled it out. It's too hard to handle that whole thing right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54746]]></link><description><![CDATA[To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People demand freedom only when they have no power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64915]]></link><description><![CDATA[People demand freedom only when they have no power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28054]]></link><description><![CDATA[With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7030]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63603]]></link><description><![CDATA[All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bear and the FoxA bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bear and the FoxA bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such respect for him that he would not even touch his dead body. A Fox hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear, Oh! that you would eat the dead and not the living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we will not be able to reach agreements in the end, this constitution is going to be presented to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36224]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we will not be able to reach agreements in the end, this constitution is going to be presented to the Iraqis in an Oct. 15 referendum. Legally we do not need the parliament to vote on the draft, but we need only a consensus so that all the Iraqis will say yes to the constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Anon -Allan K. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Anon -Allan K. Chalmers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My tables--meet it is I set it down That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.  At ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56687]]></link><description><![CDATA[My tables--meet it is I set it down That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.  At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair Greece! and relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair Greece! and relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21319]]></link><description><![CDATA[HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21319</guid></item></channel></rss>