<?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[And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.  Wha does the utmost that he can  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62002]]></link><description><![CDATA[And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.  Wha does the utmost that he can   Will whyles do mair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only index by which to judge a government or a way of life is by the quality of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only index by which to judge a government or a way of life is by the quality of the people it acts upon. No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion- it is an evil government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a surprising Divisional Playoff weekend, I anticipate more excitement and for two more riveting games to be played before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30935]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a surprising Divisional Playoff weekend, I anticipate more excitement and for two more riveting games to be played before the Super Bowl contenders are decided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over all good things certain, this is sure indeed, Suffer not the old King, for we know the breed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over all good things certain, this is sure indeed, Suffer not the old King, for we know the breed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (religious conservatives) want to destroy us by going after every company that dares not treat gays like they're diseased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38659]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (religious conservatives) want to destroy us by going after every company that dares not treat gays like they're diseased pariahs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hear is to heed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50408]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hear is to heed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat., Nimirum insanus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21016]]></link><description><![CDATA[He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat., Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod  Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876  Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once. His Christian life ceases to be the complicated thing it had been before and becomes the very essence of simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21627]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have liked to have 12 points but we must learn our lessons. I don't think England are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have liked to have 12 points but we must learn our lessons. I don't think England are the best team in Europe but they are one of the best with three young forwards and a good defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17939]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just stupid and unacceptable to the Mariners. This has sullied the reputation of the Seattle Mariners, and for that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31916]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just stupid and unacceptable to the Mariners. This has sullied the reputation of the Seattle Mariners, and for that it's terribly disappointing. We'll try to eradicate this, and we'll take strong internal action against the transgressors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased that utility commissions in Wyoming and Utah have approved the transaction. We appreciate the efforts of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35985]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased that utility commissions in Wyoming and Utah have approved the transaction. We appreciate the efforts of all parties to the proceedings working together to reach agreements that are fair and equitable to all stakeholders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot hate those who we despise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52279]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot hate those who we despise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never was anything so inconsistent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never was anything so inconsistent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[General wisdom is not a threat to the gospel, because everything good traces to God. God is merciful and kind; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6547]]></link><description><![CDATA[General wisdom is not a threat to the gospel, because everything good traces to God. God is merciful and kind; he bestows truth, as well as rain and sunshine, upon the just and the unjust. Christ is the "true light that enlightens every man". This bestowal should inspire feelings of joy, not resentment, in the heart of a Christian. Aristotle said many wise things about logic, Confucius many wise things about morals. When a Christian attacks general wisdom in the name of the gospel, the natural man will attack the gospel in the name of general wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot come to honour under Coverlet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50044]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot come to honour under Coverlet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fors juvat audentes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fors juvat audentes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that readeth good writers and pickes out their flowres for his own nose, is lyke a foole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46640]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that readeth good writers and pickes out their flowres for his own nose, is lyke a foole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21983]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23788]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47298]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had been watching the area for a while and they were able to tag Cannon as a dealer. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29255]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had been watching the area for a while and they were able to tag Cannon as a dealer. When they obtained a search warrant and went to arrest him they found him sitting on his front porch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977   The principal part of faith is patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977   The principal part of faith is patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57666]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19834]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimski; for he driveth furiously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call on him to represent and respect his constituents, not further his own ego, as he is by remaining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36538]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call on him to represent and respect his constituents, not further his own ego, as he is by remaining totally out of touch in the Big Brother house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, / Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65943]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful what you wear to bed at night, you never know who you'll meet in your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful what you wear to bed at night, you never know who you'll meet in your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just went to roll around with him for a little bit. He got his first points. And dislocated my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39385]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just went to roll around with him for a little bit. He got his first points. And dislocated my elbow. I guess that was the passing of the torch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During my most recent visit two weeks ago, I was struck by the destruction that still remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34078]]></link><description><![CDATA[During my most recent visit two weeks ago, I was struck by the destruction that still remains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only people who never fail are those who never try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only people who never fail are those who never try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22182</guid></item></channel></rss>