<?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[Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65602]]></link><description><![CDATA[God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46445]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43297]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64213]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one teaches, two learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63888]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one teaches, two learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opinion, saying tailors had their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58563]]></link><description><![CDATA[One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opinion, saying tailors had their business at their fingers' ends.   - William Hazlitt,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34410]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been below average in a lot of places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30682]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been below average in a lot of places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's exceedingly intelligent, very sharp, and he's got a great deal of humanity. I'm sure he will not pull any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29609]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's exceedingly intelligent, very sharp, and he's got a great deal of humanity. I'm sure he will not pull any punches. He'll express good taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60667]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand leagues of ocean, a company of kings, You came across the watching world to show how heroes die. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57126]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand leagues of ocean, a company of kings, You came across the watching world to show how heroes die.  When the splendour of your story   Builds the halo of its glory,    'Twill belt the earth like Saturn's rings     And diadem the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a greedy eating horse a short halter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49998]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a greedy eating horse a short halter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[(I-Newswire) - In the free event, Bell will read from] No Planets Strike, ... Edgy in both senses of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38737]]></link><description><![CDATA[[(I-Newswire) - In the free event, Bell will read from] No Planets Strike, ... Edgy in both senses of the word, Josh Bell populates his daft American heartland with the runaway muse Ramona and her clones. The resulting landscapes are as dangerous, funny, and drop-dead gorgeous as those in a Road Runner cartoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47433]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60533]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not completely finalized, but I talked with Steve (Wednesday) and he has given me a proxy to go ahead. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30306]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not completely finalized, but I talked with Steve (Wednesday) and he has given me a proxy to go ahead. It's not really 'official' official, but the building is on hold, and we've got the date (from Showtime), so we're just about there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a waste of time; time is a waste of life; so why waste your time when you could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a waste of time; time is a waste of life; so why waste your time when you could be having the time of your life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Especially with the murder, people are wondering what's going on. I don't even want to really say anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Especially with the murder, people are wondering what's going on. I don't even want to really say anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38791]]></link><description><![CDATA[At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is profitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is profitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53718]]></link><description><![CDATA[We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm  In gallant trim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm  In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes,   Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Beatle is inviting 300 people. They are all sworn to secrecy, lest this get in the papers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Beatle is inviting 300 people. They are all sworn to secrecy, lest this get in the papers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people play a fair game of golf - If you watch them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people play a fair game of golf - If you watch them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Realists do not fear the results of their study. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Realists do not fear the results of their study.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wrestled a very solid match. We're pleased with our progress and we have two weeks of practice to sharpen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38928]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wrestled a very solid match. We're pleased with our progress and we have two weeks of practice to sharpen up before the VOL Tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The net is not spread for the hawk or the kite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The net is not spread for the hawk or the kite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's in the middle of the whole tour, so we'll get to go out and change it up a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37644]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's in the middle of the whole tour, so we'll get to go out and change it up a little bit. We love Tom and his band. It will be a cool, special show for people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all recruit hard, they play solid football, they all have a good plan. It's not just someone trying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29865]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all recruit hard, they play solid football, they all have a good plan. It's not just someone trying to out-formation you, they know what it's all about. I think the coaching in this league is very strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just wanted to make some money and have a job since I'm not old enough for another job, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just wanted to make some money and have a job since I'm not old enough for another job, like in a store,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During his lifetime, when he was insulted or encountered offensive behavior, he did not respond with rage or violence. Instead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34339]]></link><description><![CDATA[During his lifetime, when he was insulted or encountered offensive behavior, he did not respond with rage or violence. Instead he taught his followers to respond with mercy and best behavior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51812]]></link><description><![CDATA[In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52757]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Although we ought always to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Although we ought always to raise our minds upwards towards God, and pray without ceasing, yet such is our weakness, which requires to be supported, such our torpor, which requires to be stimulated, that it is requisite for us to appoint special hours for this exercise, hours which are not to pass away without prayer, and during which the whole affections of our minds are to be completely occupied; namely, when we rise in the morning, before we commence our daily work, when we sit down to food, when by the blessing of God we have taken it, and when we retire to rest. This, however, must not be a superstitious observance of hours, by which, as it were, performing a task to God, we think we are discharged as to other hours. It should rather be considered a discipline by which our weakness is exercised and stimulated. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45136]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginnings of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginnings of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60325]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10674]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well, did everything to win but conceded three strange goals. It's difficult to explain this defeat. Porto were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32025]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well, did everything to win but conceded three strange goals. It's difficult to explain this defeat. Porto were the better side, we created many chances to score. Sometimes the best team doesn't win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature uses as little as possible of anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature uses as little as possible of anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43825</guid></item></channel></rss>