<?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[I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17073]]></link><description><![CDATA[My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You become afraid lest too much perspiration will wet your hands too much, make them slide on the black keys, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35584]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become afraid lest too much perspiration will wet your hands too much, make them slide on the black keys, which are too narrow; you are playing at about a hundred miles a minute. But somehow they don't. As long as they don't you know you're all right. You're going good, well-oiled like an engine. Not too much sweat, not too little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has broken the law and I know that he had a problem of abusing, but inside of him he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42025]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has broken the law and I know that he had a problem of abusing, but inside of him he is kind and loving and caring, too, and people who know him well know that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, andhumanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, andhumanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't bunch enough hits together. The two double plays really hurt us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37294]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't bunch enough hits together. The two double plays really hurt us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13151]]></link><description><![CDATA[God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time we enjoy wasting is usually a good indicator of our real values… The best things in life feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time we enjoy wasting is usually a good indicator of our real values… The best things in life feel like we feel when we waste our time!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head,  And took his leave with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26693]]></link><description><![CDATA["Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head,  And took his leave with signs of sorrow,   Despairing of his fee to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exasperation is the mother of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exasperation is the mother of invention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. [Lat., Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum  Rara ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. [Lat., Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum  Rara juventus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not addicted to nicotine. Why must I participate in your drug addiction? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13032]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not addicted to nicotine. Why must I participate in your drug addiction?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she didn't enjoy it, she would gauze it as her duty to do what she vowed to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43218]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year may be President Bush's best year; it would have been President Clinton's worst year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28545]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year may be President Bush's best year; it would have been President Clinton's worst year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape, For a short while, our mothers' bodies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17369]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape, For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Severn didn't have the right kind of personality for WWE and I don't think they really had any idea what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Severn didn't have the right kind of personality for WWE and I don't think they really had any idea what to do with him. Tank Abbott had an amateur background but made his name in UFC brawling. He never learned to work at all and was a victim of Vince Russo 's wackiness in WCW.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2481]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45457]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23213]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36775]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4055]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41054]]></link><description><![CDATA[All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3217]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and desperately require our assistance to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and desperately require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always. -Willa Cather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29528]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64750]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All real education is the architecture of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13501]]></link><description><![CDATA[All real education is the architecture of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32567]]></link><description><![CDATA[As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, where did hunter win So delicate a skin  For her feet?   You lucky little kid,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, where did hunter win So delicate a skin  For her feet?   You lucky little kid,    You perished, so you did,     For my sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5528]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Christ claims our help in many a strange disguise: Now, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Christ claims our help in many a strange disguise: Now, fever ridden, on a bed He lies; Homeless He wanders now beneath the stars; Now counts the number of His prison bars; Now bends beside us, crowned with hoary hairs. No need have we to climb the heavenly stairs And press our kisses on His feet and hands; In every man that suffers, He, the Man of Sorrows, stands.  ... Anonymous    March 5, 1998  When we have, through Christ, obtained mercy for our persons, we need not fear but that we shall have suitable and seasonable help for our duties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12765]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2858]]></link><description><![CDATA[It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They make a desert and they call it peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51671]]></link><description><![CDATA[They make a desert and they call it peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with research is that it tells you what people were thinking about yesterday, not tomorrow. It's like driving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with research is that it tells you what people were thinking about yesterday, not tomorrow. It's like driving a car using a rearview mirror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din;  Whatever creed be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din;  Whatever creed be taught or land be trod,   Man's conscience is the oracle of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41913</guid></item></channel></rss>