<?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[A better present makes for a good past and future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59329]]></link><description><![CDATA[A better present makes for a good past and future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44200]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pot clashes with its lidIn someones hurried kitchenA telephone boils off the hook.Outside, a car doorAn airplane pulls a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46061]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pot clashes with its lidIn someones hurried kitchenA telephone boils off the hook.Outside, a car doorAn airplane pulls a drag of cloud.muffled thunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[some people who have same-sex attraction have changedÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦and instead have successfully actualized their heterosexual potential and are now ex-gay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35611]]></link><description><![CDATA[some people who have same-sex attraction have changedÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦and instead have successfully actualized their heterosexual potential and are now ex-gay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691   I apprehended it a Matter of great Necessity to imprint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691   I apprehended it a Matter of great Necessity to imprint true catholicism on the Minds of Christians, it being a most lamentable thing to observe how few Christians in the World there be, that fall not into one Sect or another .... And if they can but get to be of a Sect which they think the holiest (as the Anabaptists and the Separatists), or which is the largest (as the Greeks and the Romans), they think then that they are sufficiently warranted to deny others to be God's Church, or at least to deny them Christian love and communion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look to the past for guidance into the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look to the past for guidance into the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us have not much time to lose [to begin loving]. Remember, once more, that this is a matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us have not much time to lose [to begin loving]. Remember, once more, that this is a matter of life and death. I cannot help speaking urgently, for myself, for yourselves. "Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." That is to say, it is the deliberate verdict of the Lord Jesus that it is better not to have lived than not to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12991]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think Chase and Bank One will let that happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35534]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think Chase and Bank One will let that happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, but left the shield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, but left the shield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One stroke fells not an oke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49699]]></link><description><![CDATA[One stroke fells not an oke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In after-dinner talk, Across the walnuts and the wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57929]]></link><description><![CDATA[In after-dinner talk, Across the walnuts and the wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48159]]></link><description><![CDATA[My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country--instead of dying for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19900]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29542]]></link><description><![CDATA[With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really hard for us to win these matches when we surrender half a dozen points due to poor match-ups. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30960]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really hard for us to win these matches when we surrender half a dozen points due to poor match-ups. Our freshmen have shown a lot of poise, but we lost two valuable guys to injury in the beginning of the year and you just can't replace them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No person is important enough to make me angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21353]]></link><description><![CDATA[No person is important enough to make me angry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The major components of inflation for us are energy costs and housing costs and medical costs, and I don't see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The major components of inflation for us are energy costs and housing costs and medical costs, and I don't see any major break in any of these. I wouldn't be surprised to see still 3.5 percent to 4 percent CPI for us for this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you can hold a Class A team to just three field goals you are playing pretty solid defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you can hold a Class A team to just three field goals you are playing pretty solid defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All comes out even at the end of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11134]]></link><description><![CDATA[All comes out even at the end of the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We generally have had a good feeling going into the third and fourth quarters because the economy is doing better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We generally have had a good feeling going into the third and fourth quarters because the economy is doing better than expected. Semiconductors are going to get a boost from seasonal trends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we going to build a house without doors and windows, or are we going to put doors and windows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are we going to build a house without doors and windows, or are we going to put doors and windows in the dang thing so it can be used?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26537]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19523]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take it personally. The nation's Guardian readers all just arrived at our incredibly right-on jobs and are wondering if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take it personally. The nation's Guardian readers all just arrived at our incredibly right-on jobs and are wondering if drinking seven fair trade coffees in a row will make us feel better about third world debt. It's hard to get involved in a game between a porcine American and small, dull looking Belgian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19944]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink;  Water, water, everywhere,   Nor any drop to drink. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink;  Water, water, everywhere,   Nor any drop to drink.    The very deep did rot: O Christ!     That ever this should be!      Yes, slimy things did crawl with legs       Upon the slimy sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the parent of cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the parent of cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for truth is more precious than its possession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for truth is more precious than its possession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Truth which we must look for in Holy Writ, not cunning of words. All Scripture ought to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Truth which we must look for in Holy Writ, not cunning of words. All Scripture ought to be read in the spirit in which it was written. We must rather seek for what is profitable in Scripture, than for what ministereth to subtlety in discourse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could live a week on one good compliment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17211]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could live a week on one good compliment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No character before its time. The scripts will dictate which is first, ... I cannot wait to tell Captain America's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29751]]></link><description><![CDATA[No character before its time. The scripts will dictate which is first, ... I cannot wait to tell Captain America's story. It's a doozy of a story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't count the days, make the days count. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't count the days, make the days count.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2862]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a rebirth of hope, a reorganization of thought, and a reconstruction of dreams. Once forgiving begins, dreams can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a rebirth of hope, a reorganization of thought, and a reconstruction of dreams. Once forgiving begins, dreams can be rebuilt. When forgiving is complete, meaning has been extracted from the worst of experiences and used to create a new set of moral rules and a new interpretation of life's events.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason we did this was to make sure he would be taken care of, no matter what happened to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason we did this was to make sure he would be taken care of, no matter what happened to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56704]]></link><description><![CDATA[His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, everyone) believe that he was immune from snobbishness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23688]]></link><description><![CDATA[People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and the child of the skies!  Thy genius commands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and the child of the skies!  Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold,   While ages on ages thy splendors unfold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3535</guid></item></channel></rss>