<?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[I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be crying because I'm sentimental. But don't tell anyone I said that! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be crying because I'm sentimental. But don't tell anyone I said that!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64600]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When rosy plumelets tuft the larch, And rarely pipes the mounted thrush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59257]]></link><description><![CDATA[When rosy plumelets tuft the larch, And rarely pipes the mounted thrush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61583]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it weren't for Sean, I don't think there would be a triathlon club. There wouldn't have been enough influence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37771]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it weren't for Sean, I don't think there would be a triathlon club. There wouldn't have been enough influence to get it done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only got three dogs and two cats from Louisiana. All have been adopted. The first-hand experience we had with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33333]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only got three dogs and two cats from Louisiana. All have been adopted. The first-hand experience we had with these kitties is that they had been in cages for so long, we recommended the foster person to let them run and play. Both of the cats ran for two days straight. They were so active; they were a ball of energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52170]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite...You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39352]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is the Truth in a little creed,  Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is the Truth in a little creed,  Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all the law we need,  In Christ is all the God we know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God bless us every one, prayed Tiny Tim, Crippled and dwarfed of body yet so tall  Of soul, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4321]]></link><description><![CDATA[God bless us every one, prayed Tiny Tim, Crippled and dwarfed of body yet so tall  Of soul, we tiptoe earth to look on him,   High towering over all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In line with this trend, revenue recognition on a number of larger banking projects will now occur later than anticipated, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40005]]></link><description><![CDATA[In line with this trend, revenue recognition on a number of larger banking projects will now occur later than anticipated,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was one of most amazing games I've been involved with ... We just missed a couple opportunities to win ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was one of most amazing games I've been involved with ... We just missed a couple opportunities to win the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644  To judge aright we must judge as Christ judged. He judged ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644  To judge aright we must judge as Christ judged. He judged no man; yet if He judged, His judgments were just. He proclaimed none worthless, none hopeless. Yet men were continually being judged by their relations to Him. The result was infallible, because men judged themselves. Those who loved the light came to Him, those who rejected Him showed that they desired to walk in darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot pray in the name of Jesus to have my own will; the name of Jesus is not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8220]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot pray in the name of Jesus to have my own will; the name of Jesus is not a signature of no importance, but the decisive factor. The fact that the name of Jesus comes at the beginning does not make it a prayer in the name of Jesus; but this means to pray in such a manner that I dare name Jesus in it, that is to say, dare to think of Him, think His holy will together with whatever I am praying for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shauna and I had no office yet. We had to find the equipment for the office, we had to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shauna and I had no office yet. We had to find the equipment for the office, we had to find furniture, start writing grants, contact the IRS about our public charitable status, and get with the state about our tax-exempt status. We ended up going around Methodist Hospital to offices that were vacant at the time to make phone calls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strategy is to frustrate the other team by trying to make them play in front of you, by not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strategy is to frustrate the other team by trying to make them play in front of you, by not giving them holes and by being as compact as possible. You have to move the ball even quicker than when you have 11 men because they are going to try and pressure you. There are opportunities to get at them but they did a good job of closing us down. But I think we did an equally good job of holding on to the ball when we did have possession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8667]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16972]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek joy in what you give not in what you get ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek joy in what you give not in what you get]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18353]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Branding New York City is too broad an image these days. It's no longer as powerful on the macro level. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Branding New York City is too broad an image these days. It's no longer as powerful on the macro level. The trick is to find the brands that are unique, but not so niche and so in-the-know that only 12 people who live in the neighborhood will get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58050]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood--sex and the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27703]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61528]]></link><description><![CDATA[A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even from the body's purity, the mind Receives a secret sympathetic aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even from the body's purity, the mind Receives a secret sympathetic aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56895]]></link><description><![CDATA[...far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have a president who is our agenda-setter, so we have multiple voices on every issue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40348]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have a president who is our agenda-setter, so we have multiple voices on every issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our girls have been great in being very proactive with understanding their roles in society go beyond just school and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our girls have been great in being very proactive with understanding their roles in society go beyond just school and athletics. It definitely looked like they enjoyed the opportunity to make a difference in someone else's life. Hopefully with this event and the others they have organized, they realize this is something they need to do beyond their years here at TCU.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-Falstaff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55941]]></link><description><![CDATA[-Falstaff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon --but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx --the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3955]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're doing everything we can to keep him ready for whatever the future brings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're doing everything we can to keep him ready for whatever the future brings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can keep a mask on long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51173]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can keep a mask on long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51173</guid></item></channel></rss>