<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23734]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11460]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service ofothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21100]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service ofothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21100</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60836]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old. [said when George Burns was only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35942]]></link><description><![CDATA[My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old. [said when George Burns was only 64. He lived to be 100]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10244]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41062]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Bunyan understood the Gospel when he wrote that tract, "The Jerusalem Sinner Saved." He knew that every sinner is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7652]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Bunyan understood the Gospel when he wrote that tract, "The Jerusalem Sinner Saved." He knew that every sinner is a Jerusalem sinner who has crucified the Lord of Glory; and to whom, notwithstanding all this, the grace of God is exceedingly abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. Therefore the Apostle Paul himself is a pattern... of the grace of God abounding to the Christ-crucifiers. A new covenant is made with those who transgressed the first covenant. It is the brethren of Joseph, who have sold him into Egypt, who are made the partakers of Joseph's power and of Joseph's riches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37950]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We put up sheets here so they can have their privacy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42420]]></link><description><![CDATA[We put up sheets here so they can have their privacy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The faulty stands on his guard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The faulty stands on his guard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11929]]></link><description><![CDATA[I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must act out passion before we can feel it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64832]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must act out passion before we can feel it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40159]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53763]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She will be much better if she fights out of the country to get the feel of away matches and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40332]]></link><description><![CDATA[She will be much better if she fights out of the country to get the feel of away matches and even jeering from other fans,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing happens unless first a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing happens unless first a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64041]]></link><description><![CDATA[To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone exits your life, let them go with class and style. They mattered, if only for a little while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62933]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone exits your life, let them go with class and style. They mattered, if only for a little while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60062]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a very popular company locally. We have our critics, but everyone in the community has benefited from how well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28404]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a very popular company locally. We have our critics, but everyone in the community has benefited from how well we run these ski resorts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the spirits, I believe the spirit of judging is the worst, and it has had the rule of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the spirits, I believe the spirit of judging is the worst, and it has had the rule of me, I cannot tell you how dreadfully and how long... This, I find has more hindered my progress in love and gentleness than all things else. I never knew what the words, "Judge not that ye be not judged," meant before; now they seem to me some of the most awful, necessary, and beautiful in the whole Word of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?  Torn, trampled under feet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?  Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost,   Star-eyed intelligence?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60057]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sarcasm: intellect on the offensive ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sarcasm: intellect on the offensive]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love. If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying peace, peace, where there is no peace; if I forget the poignant words, "Let love be without dissimulation" and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64162]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10825]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25548]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65367]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We beat Dallas at home. Hopefully we'll have a game like we did against Dallas. We're looking forward to playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31053]]></link><description><![CDATA[We beat Dallas at home. Hopefully we'll have a game like we did against Dallas. We're looking forward to playing a team like that. It gives us an opportunity to know where we're at as a team, how much we've grown, and where our confidence level is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we are guided, in part, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we are guided, in part, by ideas that are relevant to another world. ... We do many things that are unnecessary, some that are unwise, and a few that are insane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. -Native American. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. -Native American.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no;  That would, as soon as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43065]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no;  That would, as soon as e'er she shone straight,   Whether 'twere day or night demonstrate;    Tell what her d'ameter to an inch is,     And prove that she's not made of green cheese.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is the possibility of losing your hearing. That's when it gets to a very serious level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42359]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is the possibility of losing your hearing. That's when it gets to a very serious level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42359</guid></item></channel></rss>