<?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[As we were driving, we saw a sign that said "Watch for Rocks." Marta said it should read "Watch for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11727]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we were driving, we saw a sign that said "Watch for Rocks." Marta said it should read "Watch for Pretty Rocks." I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The migration path to anything but Microsoft would require a forklift overhaul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The migration path to anything but Microsoft would require a forklift overhaul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what is I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And trying to get to sleep earlier to avoid the morning "zombie effect" is pointless, he said: "The biological clock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62679]]></link><description><![CDATA[And trying to get to sleep earlier to avoid the morning "zombie effect" is pointless, he said: "The biological clock is extremely accurate and not easily changed. In a way, their brains are trying very hard to go back to sleep in the mornings."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With but a plank between them and their fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48786]]></link><description><![CDATA[With but a plank between them and their fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44874]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11264]]></link><description><![CDATA[As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is definitely a good sign. We definitely hope this is the breakthrough we have been looking for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41543]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is definitely a good sign. We definitely hope this is the breakthrough we have been looking for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Two PotsA river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Two PotsA river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass. The Earthen Pot said to the Brass Pot, Pray keep at a distance and do not come near me, for if you touch me ever so slightly, I shall be broken in pieces, and besides, I by no means wish to come near you. Equals make the best friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's quiet, it's offset. If you didn't know it was here, you wouldn't have a reason to come here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41443]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's quiet, it's offset. If you didn't know it was here, you wouldn't have a reason to come here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our crews arrived, they found patients with symptoms that were consistent with carbon monoxide poisoning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34391]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our crews arrived, they found patients with symptoms that were consistent with carbon monoxide poisoning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every fool finds a greater one to admire them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  It was only in the light of Easter that the disciples ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  It was only in the light of Easter that the disciples understood Jesus' work and intention; they now realized that the Messiah had to undergo rejection and suffering, that he was to conquer not Rome but death and evil. We have no reason to mistrust the New Testament assurance. The Easter message and the historical Jesus are joined by a bridge resting on many piers. Jesus proclaimed the good news of the presence of God who, like a forgiving father, seeks his lost children and grants even sinners the company of the Redeemer; the disciples preached the Gospel of Christ, who appeared as saviour and died on the cross for sinners. In the Holy Spirit Jesus drove out unclean spirits and conquered Satan; from Easter onwards he was extolled as the Lord of all spirits, who gives the Holy Spirit to believers and in him is ever present with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to pay a monthly subscription. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28908]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to pay a monthly subscription.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55093]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be ‘identical with themselves’, the old dictum that ‘everything is identical with itself’ becomes in [today’s understanding of the universe] a principle invariably false to facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53583]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carve your name in hearts, not marble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carve your name in hearts, not marble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there are multiple complaints, then my suspicion would be somewhere between the refinery and the tank, the blend encountered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33796]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there are multiple complaints, then my suspicion would be somewhere between the refinery and the tank, the blend encountered water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58031]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49516]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay! He chortled in his joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay! He chortled in his joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It allows us to go out and sweep the city at a much faster pace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31122]]></link><description><![CDATA[It allows us to go out and sweep the city at a much faster pace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a shortage of money -- that's just an excuse. It's just a sloppy system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30974]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a shortage of money -- that's just an excuse. It's just a sloppy system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in the work, not with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in the work, not with the hope of making a paradise (of the earth), but simply to make it more tolerable -- not to diminish the opposition between this world and the Kingdom of God, but simply to modify the opposition between the disorder of this world and the order of preservation that God wants it to have -- not to bring in the Kingdom of God, but so that the Gospel might be proclaimed in order that all men might truly hear the good news.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His development has come along real well. He's made good strides defensively. His hitting, though, is what really has impressed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28633]]></link><description><![CDATA[His development has come along real well. He's made good strides defensively. His hitting, though, is what really has impressed us. It's good enough to where we feel he'll go to Triple-A and play a big role there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45271]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65668]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People know each other better on a journey. Plaatje ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28498]]></link><description><![CDATA[People know each other better on a journey. Plaatje]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people have died, both military and civilian. This travesty must end, and our brave and dedicated troops must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people have died, both military and civilian. This travesty must end, and our brave and dedicated troops must be brought home and brought home now. Cindy, I want to know that it has been a profound privilege to care for these precious boots of your beloved son, Casey, and I now return them to you, so they may serve as a guiding light to carry your message forward, so that together we can continue the struggle to end this war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4183]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those holidays add to the magnitude of the after-Christmas shopping day. This year we planned extended hours to anticipate the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those holidays add to the magnitude of the after-Christmas shopping day. This year we planned extended hours to anticipate the shoppers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11551]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marcus Banks had three years here, to play, and he had three coaches (Jim O'Brien, John Carroll, Doc Rivers) that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marcus Banks had three years here, to play, and he had three coaches (Jim O'Brien, John Carroll, Doc Rivers) that weren't real excited about him. I think Marcus is a good player, but I don't think (there was) impatience, certainly not like a Joe Johnson or Chauncey Billups situation, you know, rookie players that were very high (draft) picks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And broughte of mighty ale a large quart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12996]]></link><description><![CDATA[And broughte of mighty ale a large quart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10545]]></link><description><![CDATA[And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When day is done, and clouds are low, And flowers are honey-dew,  And Hesper's lamp begins to glow  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14251]]></link><description><![CDATA[When day is done, and clouds are low, And flowers are honey-dew,  And Hesper's lamp begins to glow   Along the western blue;    And homeward wing the turtle-doves,     Then comes the hour the poet loves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A merry monarch, scandalous and poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54530]]></link><description><![CDATA[A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manfred: Diego, spit that out. You don't know where it's been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manfred: Diego, spit that out. You don't know where it's been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43094]]></link><description><![CDATA["Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9696]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9696</guid></item></channel></rss>