<?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[Never assume the obvious is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never assume the obvious is true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ice does not in pain screamwhen in the sun he melts into streamnor does he in pain screamwhen he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ice does not in pain screamwhen in the sun he melts into streamnor does he in pain screamwhen he higher climbs into spiraling steam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65186]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's call him Sugar, he's very sweet and he's the coach. ... Sugar is brilliant, I've even told your dad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's call him Sugar, he's very sweet and he's the coach. ... Sugar is brilliant, I've even told your dad. I want to be happy and very, very rich and successful and I will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is argument carried out by other means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is argument carried out by other means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17294]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't try to control the uncontrollable and don't freak when life happens, just pick everything up and keep on going! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't try to control the uncontrollable and don't freak when life happens, just pick everything up and keep on going!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter;  Oh no! the miserablest day we live   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter;  Oh no! the miserablest day we live   There's many a better thing to do than die!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10531]]></link><description><![CDATA[I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voters can now check how many times Bush resorts to canned remarks, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Voters can now check how many times Bush resorts to canned remarks,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is the human personification of spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45179]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is the human personification of spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to get a collective bargaining agreement done with Gene (Upshaw) and I don't see why we're having such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30873]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to get a collective bargaining agreement done with Gene (Upshaw) and I don't see why we're having such a holdup at this time. He has his reasons and we have our reasons, but it's not a healthy situation to have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15557]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She still loves La Jolla very, very much. She had been used to the heat of New Orleans for so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32097]]></link><description><![CDATA[She still loves La Jolla very, very much. She had been used to the heat of New Orleans for so many years, and she found La Jolla cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To read Wilson... is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37092]]></link><description><![CDATA[To read Wilson... is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think they're very good at protecting people in a crash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28664]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think they're very good at protecting people in a crash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted closure. And for him to thank me for being so loyal to him over the years. Instead he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted closure. And for him to thank me for being so loyal to him over the years. Instead he stood up and asked me if I wanted to see his penis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the flowers, so blue and golden,   Stars that on earth's firmament do shine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11963]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13824]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13275]]></link><description><![CDATA[My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17052]]></link><description><![CDATA[You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've agreed on a text. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39013]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've agreed on a text.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's scary, ... Doctors and patients have come to believe that prescription drugs are more effective and safer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41455]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's scary, ... Doctors and patients have come to believe that prescription drugs are more effective and safer than they probably are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human heart is human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human heart is human.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot. [Lat., Neque enim lex est aequior ulla,  Quam necis artifices arte perire sua.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the smile that was childlike and bland. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56679]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the smile that was childlike and bland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove,  A maid whom there were none to praise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44772]]></link><description><![CDATA[She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove,  A maid whom there were none to praise   And very few to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/370]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much to do, so little done, such things to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/382]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much to do, so little done, such things to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on prayer   We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on prayer   We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism... To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know all about his (no-show) reputation and his temper. But I'm pretty darn confident he'll be here. I talked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know all about his (no-show) reputation and his temper. But I'm pretty darn confident he'll be here. I talked with him personally, and then with his agent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It means everything. Having grown up in Las Vegas, it gives you a sense of accomplishment and appreciation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36118]]></link><description><![CDATA[It means everything. Having grown up in Las Vegas, it gives you a sense of accomplishment and appreciation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured maybe it was some sort of a surprise celebration for our new Teacher of the Year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured maybe it was some sort of a surprise celebration for our new Teacher of the Year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know there's a Derby out there with my name on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43679]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know there's a Derby out there with my name on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms coming, and sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28690]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms coming, and sometimes you can't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were some fantastic matches between the two sides in the late eighties and into the early nineties. Perhaps not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30675]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were some fantastic matches between the two sides in the late eighties and into the early nineties. Perhaps not so much with the first team as these tended to be second team matches played on a Friday night, but that did not stop the two sides from going at one another, and I expect that to be the main theme on Saturday evening. We will both have a go at one another within the spirit of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the behavior people take under the pressure of survival. This is misconstrued as looting, as thievery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30049]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the behavior people take under the pressure of survival. This is misconstrued as looting, as thievery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say comparisons are odious.  I say: compared to what? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66352]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say comparisons are odious.  I say: compared to what?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor ofthinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21258]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor ofthinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21258</guid></item></channel></rss>