<?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[In the 1960s and 1970s, the mine had already played out and several companies used it as a place to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40431]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1960s and 1970s, the mine had already played out and several companies used it as a place to put hazardous waste materials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saturday Night Live was fun, really really fun. The changing lady was so quick, she almost tore my arm off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saturday Night Live was fun, really really fun. The changing lady was so quick, she almost tore my arm off after the opening monolouge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.   - Daniel Webster, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.   - Daniel Webster,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asking 'who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Asking 'who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a wise husband who will buy his wife such fine china that she won't trust him to wash the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20189]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a wise husband who will buy his wife such fine china that she won't trust him to wash the dishes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47175]]></link><description><![CDATA[No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63946]]></link><description><![CDATA[I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trodden path is the safest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trodden path is the safest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26164]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.-. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.-.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58623]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61506]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on authenticity:   A mere form of religion does upon some accounts bring a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on authenticity:   A mere form of religion does upon some accounts bring a man under a heavier sentence than if he were openly profane and irreligious. He that makes a show of religion flatters God, but all the while he acts and designs against him; whereas the profane man deals plainly, and tho' he be a monstrous and unnatural rebel, yet he is a fair and open enemy. And the kisses of a false friend are more hateful than the wounds of an open enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12613]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57688]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a ball is hit in the air, you almost expect it to be caught. [And on tough balls] we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31321]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a ball is hit in the air, you almost expect it to be caught. [And on tough balls] we're still expecting them to be caught [as well].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31406]]></link><description><![CDATA[15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids have their school team, and then they have their summer team. They play the league games hard, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids have their school team, and then they have their summer team. They play the league games hard, but then they come together after the game is over and are friends again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8833]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15412]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31155]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17955]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't read too much into it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28975]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't read too much into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was recently on a tour of Latin America,and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47073]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was recently on a tour of Latin America,and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sow an act...reap a habit; Sow a habit...reap a character; Sow a character...reap a destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sow an act...reap a habit; Sow a habit...reap a character; Sow a character...reap a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is forgiven is usually well remembered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53272]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is forgiven is usually well remembered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike the iron whilst it is hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike the iron whilst it is hot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20254]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43134]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3083]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good for younger people to see how things were done before modern conveniences when you sat in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35662]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good for younger people to see how things were done before modern conveniences when you sat in the tractor exposed to the cold, heat and rain. These tractors were before air conditioning, heat and stereos. This also gives the older people an opportunity to relive memories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile  Thought him still speaking, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile  Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last night I had a revelationSomehow I have to make you payIt's all about manipulationAnd what it takes to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last night I had a revelationSomehow I have to make you payIt's all about manipulationAnd what it takes to get my wayI don't believe in soft solutionsNo one makes a fool of meWithout receiving retributionNo one hurts me and goes freeI'll play on your fears, I'll leave you in tearsYou'll never be the same, my friendYou're walking a line, it's a matter of timeYou'll never rest easy againI've got the power to bring you downI've heard it said, to err is humanIt's forgiveness that's divineI thought about forgiving you, butI want revenge, I want what's mineI think it's time to settle scores nowIt's time to set the record straightYou'll know it's coming, you won't know howOr when, you'll have to watch and waitI'll play on your fears, I'll leave you in tearsYou'll never be the same, my friendYou're walking a line, it's a matter of timeYou'll never rest easy againI've got the power to bring you downYou know, it feels intoxicatingTo be intimidatingIt's invigoratingTo see you shakingI've got the power to bring you downYou know something, you see it coming, You know I will stop at nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63316]]></link><description><![CDATA[You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15808]]></link><description><![CDATA[If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the mantle of national interest is the last refuge of the economically dispossessed. In economic terms, pleading national interest is the declining cottage industry of those who have been bypassed by the global economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37976]]></link><description><![CDATA[So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What loss feels he that wots not what he loses? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48679]]></link><description><![CDATA[What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three ways to get something done: (1) Do it yourself. (2) Hire someone to do it for you. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43246]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three ways to get something done: (1) Do it yourself. (2) Hire someone to do it for you. (3) Forbid your kids to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don't want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their party’s base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By any measure, 2000 was a great year for Blockbuster, ... Building on the strength of 2000, we remain confident ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38633]]></link><description><![CDATA[By any measure, 2000 was a great year for Blockbuster, ... Building on the strength of 2000, we remain confident that we can continue generating solid cash earnings growth in 2001 and beyond, led by continued success in our retail store business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38633</guid></item></channel></rss>