<?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[As clear as a whistle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48524]]></link><description><![CDATA[As clear as a whistle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[crisis between America and its allies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33842]]></link><description><![CDATA[crisis between America and its allies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She really played hard against McNary and I think we might have surprised ourselves with our performance. It was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37630]]></link><description><![CDATA[She really played hard against McNary and I think we might have surprised ourselves with our performance. It was a big game for me personally, since I went to McNary it was great to come away with a win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3943]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the United States will remain a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60119]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the United States will remain a social and political punch line. As long as we continue tracking the every deed and fart of the Paris Hiltons and Kevin Federlines among us, we will continue to come out sixteenth best with regard to producing and introducing to the human race things of true substance worth appreciating for their aesthetic ingenuity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild oats make a bad autumn crop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1837]]></link><description><![CDATA[At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe these headlines are negative for beef processors, particularly Tyson Foods, the largest U.S. beef processor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34815]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe these headlines are negative for beef processors, particularly Tyson Foods, the largest U.S. beef processor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is only as good as what he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25876]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is only as good as what he loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's completely irrelevant whether something is good or bad or valuable or worthless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41394]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's completely irrelevant whether something is good or bad or valuable or worthless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little more than kin, and less than kind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23761]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little more than kin, and less than kind!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O ye who teach the ingenuous youth of nations-- Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain;  I pray ye flog ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48754]]></link><description><![CDATA[O ye who teach the ingenuous youth of nations-- Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain;  I pray ye flog them upon all occasions,   It mends their morals--never mind the pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43373]]></link><description><![CDATA[In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole metro area down there is at least a quarter of the population, and I'm sure it's more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole metro area down there is at least a quarter of the population, and I'm sure it's more than a quarter of the state's economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes show us what we need to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes show us what we need to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17657]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9513]]></link><description><![CDATA[From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52118]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their hearts sweat with undivulged guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their hearts sweat with undivulged guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53585]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make a defense or apology before you are accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26598]]></link><description><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology in general, instead of acting as a beacon-light to guide the people of God, the laity, as they confront ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology in general, instead of acting as a beacon-light to guide the people of God, the laity, as they confront the problems of living for Christ in the world, has for generations been taking refuge in an ever more minute study of Christian origins. Theology is less and less about God and God's world, and more and more a department of ancient history, absorbed in minute details of historical and literary criticism. The whole business is wildly out of proportion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delphi is telling the bankruptcy court that if nothing changes in terms of their union agreement, they won?t have money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delphi is telling the bankruptcy court that if nothing changes in terms of their union agreement, they won?t have money to pay their light bill by the end of 2007. So there?s definitely going to be a need for changes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing a poem is discovering ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing a poem is discovering]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falstaff sweats to death, And lards the lean earth as he walks along. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falstaff sweats to death, And lards the lean earth as he walks along. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers [on the Net] by the end of December 2000, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9452]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers [on the Net] by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace has no borders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace has no borders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And this be the vocation fit, For which the founder fashioned it;  High, high above earth's life, earth's labor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4126]]></link><description><![CDATA[And this be the vocation fit, For which the founder fashioned it;  High, high above earth's life, earth's labor   E'en to the heaven's blue vault to soar.    To hover as the thunder's neighbor,     The very firmament explore.      To be a voice as from above       Like yonder stars so bright and clear,        That praise their Maker as they move,         And usher in the circling year.          Tun'd be its metal mouth alone           To things eternal and sublime.            And as the swift wing'd hours speed on             May it record the flight of time!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When mistrust comes in, love goes out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42850]]></link><description><![CDATA[When mistrust comes in, love goes out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know how to live the time that is given you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know how to live the time that is given you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17165]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25234]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love-all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raise the urinals. (on how management could keep the Braves on their toes) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raise the urinals. (on how management could keep the Braves on their toes)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are the only animals who eat themselves to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/743]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are the only animals who eat themselves to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world today has a strong democratic core shaped by American ingenuity, sacrifice, and spirit. But on the periphery are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world today has a strong democratic core shaped by American ingenuity, sacrifice, and spirit. But on the periphery are many unstable and dangerous places, where terrorists seek to impose a medieval dark age. As we learned so brutally and so personally, we do face a new threat. But we also face a renewed choice - between isolation in a perilous world, which I believe is impossible in any event, and engagement to shape a safer world which is the urgent imperative of our time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lost some key games last year that we shouldn't have. We got off to a great start and then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34262]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lost some key games last year that we shouldn't have. We got off to a great start and then our hitting kind of fizzled out. We should be similar to last year, but with more experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We usually have a good turnout, ... Students will come after their classes are over, and sometimes we have sports ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37862]]></link><description><![CDATA[We usually have a good turnout, ... Students will come after their classes are over, and sometimes we have sports teams come for dinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43143]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're talking about twenty-something years of professional ball. You have seen every defence you can possibly see. Every type of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38878]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're talking about twenty-something years of professional ball. You have seen every defence you can possibly see. Every type of athlete, every type of blitz, every type of coverage. You've seen everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63867]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63867</guid></item></channel></rss>