<?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[There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61055]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56962]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your voice dries up if you don't use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your voice dries up if you don't use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully I'll be up here again in a better position in the coming years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully I'll be up here again in a better position in the coming years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's significantly faster than the first mile, the coach should have raised eyebrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41795]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's significantly faster than the first mile, the coach should have raised eyebrows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/589]]></link><description><![CDATA[If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of things we're seeing right now are very familiar pieces, but they're done in a new fabric or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of things we're seeing right now are very familiar pieces, but they're done in a new fabric or color. It's about juxtaposition - denim with velvet. That makes it easy to get a lot of use out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6087]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. -Joan Baez.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7982]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Bush has made this declaration so Tennessee can get back on their feet and go on with their lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38111]]></link><description><![CDATA[President Bush has made this declaration so Tennessee can get back on their feet and go on with their lives as quickly as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who loves least controls the relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25673]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who loves least controls the relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women do most delight in revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women do most delight in revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Booke When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke  Fresh to all Ages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55304]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Booke When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke  Fresh to all Ages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42039]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is just part of the big picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is just part of the big picture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I can contribute. I'm not playing the way that I want to. With the new rules and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I can contribute. I'm not playing the way that I want to. With the new rules and with the new systems we have, I'm not playing as much. I'm not playing up to my standards, that's first and foremost. I'm the one who has to look at myself in the mirror every day and I have high expectations for myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21042]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?  Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried,   If he kneel not before the same altar with me?    From the heretic girl of my soul should I fly,     To seek somewhere else a more orthodox kiss?      No! perish the hearts, and the laws that try       Truth, valour, or love, by a standard like this!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47274]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temper is a funny thing; it spoils children, ruins adults, and strengthens steel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temper is a funny thing; it spoils children, ruins adults, and strengthens steel]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When she would write a song, she would call me and say, 'Do you want to hear something? What do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31091]]></link><description><![CDATA[When she would write a song, she would call me and say, 'Do you want to hear something? What do you think?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to itand helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces -- self-denial, readiness to the cross -- they all work and help faith. Yet when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do. Not to be surprised with any thing is the substance of human wisdom; not to be surprised with death is a great part of the substance of our spiritual wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most business lines continue to exhibit strong sales during the quarter, including sales of consumer loans, deposits and credit cards, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most business lines continue to exhibit strong sales during the quarter, including sales of consumer loans, deposits and credit cards,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This fearful concatenation of circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8729]]></link><description><![CDATA[This fearful concatenation of circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What garlic is to food, insanity is to art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28090]]></link><description><![CDATA[What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9771]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back of the boy is Wilson, Pledge of his high degree,  Back of the boy is Lincoln,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Back of the boy is Wilson, Pledge of his high degree,  Back of the boy is Lincoln,   Lincoln and Grant and Lee;    Back of the boy is Jackson,     Jackson and Tippecanoe,      Back of each son is Washington,       And the old red, white and blue!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3411]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11451]]></link><description><![CDATA[More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5881]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is certain when it comes to the ways of women, of that I'm sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is certain when it comes to the ways of women, of that I'm sure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody thought a skateboarder could get endorsement deals. There is a product for every subculture. Mountain Dew sells to extreme ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody thought a skateboarder could get endorsement deals. There is a product for every subculture. Mountain Dew sells to extreme athletes. Deodorant is being sold to urban markets with rappers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age ... is a matter of feeling, not of years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age ... is a matter of feeling, not of years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can afford to live anywhere else and I choose to stay here, and I am now raising my newborn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can afford to live anywhere else and I choose to stay here, and I am now raising my newborn child here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one should be left behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34205]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one should be left behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tornado came through here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33335]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tornado came through here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to be the place where people can rent, buy or trade movies or games, in store or online. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38626]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to be the place where people can rent, buy or trade movies or games, in store or online.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35905]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dewdrop slips into the shining sea! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dewdrop slips into the shining sea!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12189</guid></item></channel></rss>