<?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[With what presumption have we dared to voice "Thank You for home (although we hold the deed), Our acre, trees, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6800]]></link><description><![CDATA[With what presumption have we dared to voice "Thank You for home (although we hold the deed), Our acre, trees, and flowers (ours by choice), Our faithful dog and cat (though it's agreed No one can own the latter), each good book (A gift, or purchased), all else we foresaw That we should cherish, and have made to look Ours by possession (nine points of the law)." With what presumption have we called them ours, And even felt unselfish when we shared them--  When, if the truth be known, they have been Yours From the beginning, Lord! You have prepared them For us to borrow, using as our own: So thank You, Father, for this generous loan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45531]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26747]]></link><description><![CDATA[I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/430]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is a battle, not a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is a battle, not a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves. If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20620]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves. If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused. All of my remaining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36852]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused. All of my remaining days, I will feel tremendous sadness and regret for my conduct and for what I have done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65394]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain all The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis receiv'd,  And is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain all The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis receiv'd,  And is enough for both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,  Each smooth as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10456]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er,  Each smooth as those that mutually deceive,   And for their falsehood each despising each.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15670]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11949]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you want to see. I want to knit you a sweater. I want to write you a love letter. I want to make you feel better. I want to make you feel free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is not determined by majority vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is not determined by majority vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49948]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2269]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blushing is the colour of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blushing is the colour of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tech sector should provide a nice hedge from broad-based (outward) spread pressure in 2006, especially in cyclical areas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38801]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tech sector should provide a nice hedge from broad-based (outward) spread pressure in 2006, especially in cyclical areas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will not become a saint through other people's sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will not become a saint through other people's sins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36181]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it is not good for the Christian's health To hustle the Aryan brown,  For the Christian riles and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it is not good for the Christian's health To hustle the Aryan brown,  For the Christian riles and the Aryan smiles,   And it weareth the Christian down.    And the end of the fight is a tombstone white     With the name of the late deceased--      And the epitaph drear: "A fool lies here       Who tried to hustle the East."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14842]]></link><description><![CDATA[No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do all the hard work. They distribute the ball perfectly, which they did (against Gaither), getting the ball to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37685]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do all the hard work. They distribute the ball perfectly, which they did (against Gaither), getting the ball to the outside to set up Mike's goals. And they pick up on defense too. ... They are the ultimate team players and they make our team click.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28769]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is sweeter than life itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is sweeter than life itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I almost don't know where to begin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39883]]></link><description><![CDATA[I almost don't know where to begin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3698]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5700]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of allothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of allothers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the short and the long of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55358]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the short and the long of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11755]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60281]]></link><description><![CDATA[In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of morality to the country's well-being: Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.... And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.... Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1287]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21469]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This life's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believe a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25228]]></link><description><![CDATA[This life's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believe a lie when you see with, not through, the eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel so bad about that. That's not enough, but I couldn't convince the publisher to print a 500-page children's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31946]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel so bad about that. That's not enough, but I couldn't convince the publisher to print a 500-page children's book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to get healthy. We had a couple starters out for the Southwest game, and a couple people that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30598]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to get healthy. We had a couple starters out for the Southwest game, and a couple people that hadn't practiced. P.J. Gardner missed the game against Southwest, but he'll be back on the O-line. We're working on basic stuff, not looking to change much, just looking to continue to improve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59374</guid></item></channel></rss>