<?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[I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a big deal for us all those corny things kids did in those days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33072]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big deal for us all those corny things kids did in those days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved? [Lat., Quis desiderio sit pudor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18332]]></link><description><![CDATA[What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved? [Lat., Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus  Tam cari capitis?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. -Robert F. Goheen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13537]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. -Robert F. Goheen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61466]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think being funny is not anyone's first choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55120]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you a bromide? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you a bromide?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64520]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It conflicts directly with the mission of the church to assist people who come to us and are in need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It conflicts directly with the mission of the church to assist people who come to us and are in need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame;  Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease,   Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I so enjoyed working with Jessica on our Rushmore project. Sharing the art is important to both of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I so enjoyed working with Jessica on our Rushmore project. Sharing the art is important to both of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand his decision as much as I hate to see him leave. He's a fine man, and I just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand his decision as much as I hate to see him leave. He's a fine man, and I just can't say enough good things about him and what he meant to the program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, powerful bacillus, With wonder how you fill us,  Every day!   While medical detectives,    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, powerful bacillus, With wonder how you fill us,  Every day!   While medical detectives,    With powerful objectives,     Watch your play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there's nothing you can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there's nothing you can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given, not lent, And not withdrawn, once sent, This Infant of mankind, this One, Is still the little welcome Son. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given, not lent, And not withdrawn, once sent, This Infant of mankind, this One, Is still the little welcome Son. New every year, New-born and newly dear, He comes with tidings and a song, The ages long, the ages long. Even as the cold  Keen winter grows not old, As childhood is so fresh, forseen, And spring in the familiar green. Sudden as sweet Come the expected feet. All joy is young, and new all art, And He, too, whom we have by heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63526]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This insensibility of ours is a bad symptom. For one thing, it implies that we have no spiritual ambition, else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7852]]></link><description><![CDATA[This insensibility of ours is a bad symptom. For one thing, it implies that we have no spiritual ambition, else we should not be satisfied with such poor lives; that we cannot have thought out the fact of Jesus Christ, and how immeasurably He has raised the standard. Will you hang your wretched daubs beside the works of Titian and Michelangelo and not be shamed by the enormous contrast -- stand back and say, with a satisfied smirk, "That is pretty good, you know!"? And can you live face to face with Jesus Christ, and be content with what you are?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64488]]></link><description><![CDATA[To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dont let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dont let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47806]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries: . . . . So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decrees was given at Shushan the palace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. [Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58205]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. [Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bottom line is, he's not in custody yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bottom line is, he's not in custody yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What this tournament represents is a mid-season gut-check. There are 16 good teams in this tournament, any one of which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39474]]></link><description><![CDATA[What this tournament represents is a mid-season gut-check. There are 16 good teams in this tournament, any one of which can win at any time. This tournament really lets you see what you need to work on and what you're doing well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand the power of this kind of an institution to improve the quality of life for people. I've worked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand the power of this kind of an institution to improve the quality of life for people. I've worked in nonprofit, humanities-oriented projects all of my life. For me personally, the opportunity to support people's ideas is critical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not arrested or detained anyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41362]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not arrested or detained anyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours,  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours,  The latest of whose train goes softly out   In the red west.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously I?m disappointed. But you don?t always get everything that you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously I?m disappointed. But you don?t always get everything that you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kelvin knew nothing about ground [fighting], and that's why he lost. His striking is good and as a fighter, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kelvin knew nothing about ground [fighting], and that's why he lost. His striking is good and as a fighter, he can only become better. He's only going to get better, and this will be a very big experience for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20710]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the moment we saw the flag rising was the one we did not allow ourselves to even imagine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the moment we saw the flag rising was the one we did not allow ourselves to even imagine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34277]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of overlap in his plan. You might as well hold an index fund. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35061]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of overlap in his plan. You might as well hold an index fund.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 My God, how endless is Thy love! Thy gifts are every evening new, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 My God, how endless is Thy love! Thy gifts are every evening new, And morning mercies from above Gently distill like early dew. Thou spread'st the curtains of the night, Great guardian of my sleeping hours; Thy sov'reign word restores the light, And quickens all my drowsy powers. I yield my powers to Thy command, To Thee I consecrate my days; Perpetual blessings from Thine hand Demand perpetual songs of praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since I arrived at the commission, we have greatly stepped up our enforcement against indecent broadcasts, ... I expect that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since I arrived at the commission, we have greatly stepped up our enforcement against indecent broadcasts, ... I expect that stepped-up actions like those we take today will convince broadcasters that they cannot ignore their responsibility to serve the public interest and to avoid the broadcast of indecent material over the public airwaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least one time in your life, train with the will to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61586]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least one time in your life, train with the will to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise a hill, but keepe below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise a hill, but keepe below.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries. [Lat., Miserias properant suas  Audire miseri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42768]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries. [Lat., Miserias properant suas  Audire miseri.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vesper bell from far That seems to mourn for the expiring day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vesper bell from far That seems to mourn for the expiring day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4106</guid></item></channel></rss>