<?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[Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air;  And though the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air;  And though the sound had parted thence,   Still left an echo in the sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61458]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears. [Lat., Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears. [Lat., Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures perdidit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunwands turn rain droplets into blackberry drupelets as enkindled okra seeds acknowledge heliocracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunwands turn rain droplets into blackberry drupelets as enkindled okra seeds acknowledge heliocracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58666]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21238]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair? -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have nothing to say, say nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27950]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have nothing to say, say nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of students that have a blackout for the first time learn from it and stop drinking so much. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31726]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of students that have a blackout for the first time learn from it and stop drinking so much. It is a scary thing to have happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a mistake every man should make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a mistake every man should make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26438</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[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536  Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536  Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a blot radiating his dark influence outward to the very circumference of society, or he may be a blessing spreading benediction over the length and breadth of the world. But a blank he cannot be: there are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is love made visible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is love made visible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if there is some sibling competition there or not, but it is good to have them both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if there is some sibling competition there or not, but it is good to have them both scoring goals. They can be a pretty powerful one-two punch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring in great logs and let them lie To make a solid core of heat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring in great logs and let them lie To make a solid core of heat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. [Lat., Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. [Lat., Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27201]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with a budget is that it's hard to fill up one hole without digging another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4966]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with a budget is that it's hard to fill up one hole without digging another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hide your body in the Big Dipper ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hide your body in the Big Dipper]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60678]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24934]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is more stinking than drinking, but to feel isfor real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is more stinking than drinking, but to feel isfor real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever limits us, we call Fate ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever limits us, we call Fate]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not cease to drink beer, to eat, to intoxicate thyself, to make love, and to celebrate the good days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not cease to drink beer, to eat, to intoxicate thyself, to make love, and to celebrate the good days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He says anything that first comes into his mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50620]]></link><description><![CDATA[He says anything that first comes into his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to wait [to decide on team discipline]. And that's an internal matter we'll never discuss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32634]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to wait [to decide on team discipline]. And that's an internal matter we'll never discuss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31361]]></link><description><![CDATA[As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who created things, made them up, so much as I know that people edit their memories. We all do this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't aim a duck to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21652]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't aim a duck to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't sit around thinking, 'This'll be great for kids' - it just happened to really appeal to them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32343]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't sit around thinking, 'This'll be great for kids' - it just happened to really appeal to them,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know I'm going to be happy way later in the future, knowing that's the way I conducted myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know I'm going to be happy way later in the future, knowing that's the way I conducted myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  We need to forget the imaginary Christ who has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  We need to forget the imaginary Christ who has been ours too long and to rediscover the real Christ, the Christ of the prophets and the martyrs and the confessors, the Christ who is not only the lover of souls but also master, a monarch with demands to make in industry, in finance, in education, in the arts, in marriage, in the home; the Christ who is teacher of a social ideology which has eternal validity; the Christ who cries aloud with convincing force, "He who would save his life will lose it; only he who is willing to lose his life, can find it.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20136</guid></item></channel></rss>