<?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[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20082]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like 'Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!' and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, 'That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.' Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We actually started having meetings yesterday morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35294]]></link><description><![CDATA[We actually started having meetings yesterday morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the Lord judge the criminals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the Lord judge the criminals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They appeal to people who want something that's going to last and survive the elements and at the same time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42573]]></link><description><![CDATA[They appeal to people who want something that's going to last and survive the elements and at the same time make a strong fashion statement when paired with jeans or a skirt. They're not for the shy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sole equality on earth is death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sole equality on earth is death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know we've got to create time out of no time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know we've got to create time out of no time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist asked God for relief. "Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God. "No," replied ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46425]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist asked God for relief. "Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God. "No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them." "The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something - the mortality of the optimist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel that other churches must accept, as the pre-conditions of fellowship, such changes as will bring them into conformity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7295]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel that other churches must accept, as the pre-conditions of fellowship, such changes as will bring them into conformity with ourselves in matters which we regard as essential, and that a failure to insist on this will involve compromise in regard to what is essential to the Church's being. But for precisely the same reason, we cannot admit a demand from others for any changes in ourselves which would seem to imply a denial that we already possess the esse of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best I Ever Had ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Best I Ever Had]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is also to be found in a day's work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet each man kills the thing he loves... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet each man kills the thing he loves...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During his lifetime, when he was insulted or encountered offensive behavior, he did not respond with rage or violence. Instead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34339]]></link><description><![CDATA[During his lifetime, when he was insulted or encountered offensive behavior, he did not respond with rage or violence. Instead he taught his followers to respond with mercy and best behavior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what nerves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what nerves let you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58498]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises,  . . . Epicuri de grege porcum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that the Maoists will give high priority to civilians' security while waging war against the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that the Maoists will give high priority to civilians' security while waging war against the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18020]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was a whole person. Then they cut the person open, and in him is a little baby shark. And in the baby shark there isn't a person, because it would be too small. But there's a little doll or something, like a Johnny Combat little toy guy---something like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64007]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2904</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><item><title><![CDATA[If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55765]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a new artist you're just hoping people notice you any way possible just so you can get your music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39710]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a new artist you're just hoping people notice you any way possible just so you can get your music to them, ... Then you just hope they dig the music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger is sharper than the sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger is sharper than the sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51626]]></link><description><![CDATA[No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily.  This wol be done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily.  This wol be done at leisure parfitly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting European Commission approval is a key step ... but the fact that there has been such a disconnect between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting European Commission approval is a key step ... but the fact that there has been such a disconnect between the takeout price of $76 (per Guidant share) and the current share price tells you there's more uncertainty and nervousness out there than normal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44976]]></link><description><![CDATA[For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime you're competing on large animals, there's a chance someone's going to get hurt. They're competing on the ragged edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime you're competing on large animals, there's a chance someone's going to get hurt. They're competing on the ragged edge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probablythemselves will not be realized. Make big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probablythemselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope andwork. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will notdie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We put up sheets here so they can have their privacy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42420]]></link><description><![CDATA[We put up sheets here so they can have their privacy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3734]]></link><description><![CDATA[... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As quick as lightning, in the breach Just in the place where honour's lodged,  As wise philosophers have judged, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19715]]></link><description><![CDATA[As quick as lightning, in the breach Just in the place where honour's lodged,  As wise philosophers have judged,   Because a kick in that place more    Hurts honour than deep wounds before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and talk too much of Prosperpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down. Aye, and Ben Jonson too. O that B.J. is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving poets a pill, but our fellow, Shakespeare, hath given him a purge that made him beray his credit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17428]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17428</guid></item></channel></rss>