<?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[Gluttony is an emotional sign that something is eating us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gluttony is an emotional sign that something is eating us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62494]]></link><description><![CDATA[An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44359]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35054]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all is said and done, what you'll probably see is some sort of negotiated settlement here, whether it's a breakup fee, or lower purchase price. Neither company has a strong interest in seeing this resolved in the court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25952]]></link><description><![CDATA[There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58312]]></link><description><![CDATA[True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62549]]></link><description><![CDATA[For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horse sense is a good judgement which keeps horses from betting on people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Horse sense is a good judgement which keeps horses from betting on people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's uncertainties call for vigilance by the authorities in both mature and emerging market economies in pursuing sound economic policies. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's uncertainties call for vigilance by the authorities in both mature and emerging market economies in pursuing sound economic policies. Investors need to recognize the costly consequences of sudden reversals in global conditions that could impact the markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24233]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the symbol to symbolize.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was something totally unique and I am not sure I've ever felt it since, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40850]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was something totally unique and I am not sure I've ever felt it since,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4552]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least we played with heart and desire - two things that were missing in the Wolfsburg defeat, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40202]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least we played with heart and desire - two things that were missing in the Wolfsburg defeat,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just want to tell stories and this is the story I've wanted to tell for the past six years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32730]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just want to tell stories and this is the story I've wanted to tell for the past six years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the husband be not at home, there is nobodie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the husband be not at home, there is nobodie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13237]]></link><description><![CDATA[They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cock has great influence on this own dunghill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10051]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cock has great influence on this own dunghill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really don't have enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28104]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really don't have enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who labours, prays. [Lat., Qui laborat, orat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23918]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who labours, prays. [Lat., Qui laborat, orat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will set aside more money for Social Security than what the president did in his budget; there's not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33668]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will set aside more money for Social Security than what the president did in his budget; there's not a doubt about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40292]]></link><description><![CDATA[here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19966]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64914]]></link><description><![CDATA[For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8464]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing about this group is, when you look at them individually, there is no 'stunning' talent. But when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38615]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing about this group is, when you look at them individually, there is no 'stunning' talent. But when they get together as a group, they're far more impressive. That's the power that this group has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander thanI now am. Just as the sky ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21600]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander thanI now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its presentperfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfectand not deficient because I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and Iam not deficient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far too often, young people become Christians and then search among the Church's ranks for real people, and have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far too often, young people become Christians and then search among the Church's ranks for real people, and have a hard task finding them. All too often, evangelicals are paper people. If we do not preach these things, talk about them to each other, and teach them carefully from the pulpit and in the Christian classroom, we cannot expect Christians so to act. This has always been important, but it is especially so today because we are surrounded by a world in which personality is increasingly eroded. If we, who have become God's children, do not show Him to be personal in our lives, then in practice we are denying His existence, and He cannot be anything but grieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue to search for more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did tell the President that we need a lot of Colin Powell and very little of Rumsfeld ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39081]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did tell the President that we need a lot of Colin Powell and very little of Rumsfeld]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65193]]></link><description><![CDATA[This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no prettier fall then carnival ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5279]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no prettier fall then carnival]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When rats leave a sinking ship, where exactly do they think they're going? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56170]]></link><description><![CDATA[When rats leave a sinking ship, where exactly do they think they're going?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55387]]></link><description><![CDATA[A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["God works in many ways His wonders to perform." But He's not a skillful mechanic. A man drived over a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27576]]></link><description><![CDATA["God works in many ways His wonders to perform." But He's not a skillful mechanic. A man drived over a cliff and "by a miracle" he only breaks his back. It would be more divine if he were a better driver and stayed on the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49118]]></link><description><![CDATA[An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We went right up to the top and stayed there for the first six years when Dennis was on. Those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37080]]></link><description><![CDATA[We went right up to the top and stayed there for the first six years when Dennis was on. Those were our highest-rated years. Dennis and I became over the years fast friends and stayed friends through the last 50 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15337]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11694]]></link><description><![CDATA[A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future will be better tomorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17113]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future will be better tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And grant that when I face the grisly Thing, My song may trumptet down the gray Perhaps  Let me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57222]]></link><description><![CDATA[And grant that when I face the grisly Thing, My song may trumptet down the gray Perhaps  Let me be as a tune-swept fiddlestring   That feels the Master Melody--and snaps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will be surety, shall pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49408]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will be surety, shall pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Whose name was writ in water!" What large laughter Among the immortals when that word was brought!  Then when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43651]]></link><description><![CDATA["Whose name was writ in water!" What large laughter Among the immortals when that word was brought!  Then when his fiery spirit rose flaming after,   High toward the topmost heaven of heavens up-caught!    "All hail! our younger brother!" Shakespeare said,     And Dante nodded his imperial head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43651</guid></item></channel></rss>