<?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[Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cities seldome change Religion only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cities seldome change Religion only.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57687]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ballgames.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14322]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17830]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come up here to get away from the sun, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come up here to get away from the sun,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rascally yea-forsooth knave. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55908]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rascally yea-forsooth knave. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything popular is wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything popular is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's best friends are his ten fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's best friends are his ten fingers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A-four and a-three and a-two and a-one... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15208]]></link><description><![CDATA[A-four and a-three and a-two and a-one...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The first service one owes to others in the fellowship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The first service one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love of God begins in listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His Word but lends us His ear. So it is His work that we do for our brother when we learn to listen to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procastination is the thief of Time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procastination is the thief of Time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. Philippians 4:2]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60044]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just did a survey that showed.... something like 65 percent of the [American] people couldn't vote for the First ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47134]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just did a survey that showed.... something like 65 percent of the [American] people couldn't vote for the First Amendment if it was up for a vote today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you can see the light, you have to deal with the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you can see the light, you have to deal with the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63029]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet To spin your wordy fabric in the street;  While you are emptying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet To spin your wordy fabric in the street;  While you are emptying your colloquial pack,   The fiend Lumbago jumps upon his back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[hey i'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a state of mind i could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24601]]></link><description><![CDATA[hey i'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a state of mind i could call mine, that only i could own where i could hum a tune any time i choose and there's no such thing as time where i can feel no pain, just calm and sane what a place for one to find]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62421]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They condemn that which they cannot comprehend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48883]]></link><description><![CDATA[They condemn that which they cannot comprehend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48190]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/343]]></link><description><![CDATA[...As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to put out a unified message that downtown is working. We need to move forward with a positive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37768]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to put out a unified message that downtown is working. We need to move forward with a positive message.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were a little lazy in the first half. Coming off the weekend we were a little down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32166]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were a little lazy in the first half. Coming off the weekend we were a little down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5663]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being happy doesn't always make us grateful, but being grateful will always make us happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being happy doesn't always make us grateful, but being grateful will always make us happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40823]]></link><description><![CDATA[That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very well be a mother of four, a welder or a distinguished business person. These people build up a tolerance and manage to still maintain their daily lifestyles while constantly struggling with this disease, because it is a recognized disease by the American Medical Association.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43601]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carpe per diem - seize the check. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carpe per diem - seize the check.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a good strategic platform for taking off in the U.S.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30170]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a good strategic platform for taking off in the U.S..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  It is further objected that he hath left to us no example ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  It is further objected that he hath left to us no example of that which by many is esteemed the only religious state of life, viz. perfect retirement from the world, for the more devout serving of God and freeing us from the temptations of the world -- such as is that of monks and hermits. This perhaps may seem to some a great oversight and omission. But our Lord in great wisdom thought fit to give us a pattern of a quite different sort of life, which was, not to fly the conversation of men and to live in a monastery or a wilderness, but to do good among men, to live in the world with great freedom and with great innocence. He did indeed sometimes retire himself for the more free and private exercise of devotion, as we ought to do; but he passed his life chiefly in the conversation of men, that they might have all the benefit that was possible of his instruction and example We read that "he was carried into the wilderness to be tempted," but not that he lived there to avoid temptation. He hath given us an example of denying the world without leaving it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The NeXT Computer: The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The NeXT Computer: The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities always look bigger going than coming ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities always look bigger going than coming]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good government is no substitute for self-government ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good government is no substitute for self-government]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11717]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence Love takes the meaning in love's conference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20961]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence Love takes the meaning in love's conference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20961</guid></item></channel></rss>