<?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[Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever we learn on the track, we put into the cars. Everything is evolutionary. We work hard to have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever we learn on the track, we put into the cars. Everything is evolutionary. We work hard to have the pieces come together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spots all night. It was easy for me to find them. And they were making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spots all night. It was easy for me to find them. And they were making shots. I feel I've become quicker and stronger -- mentally and physically -- to deal with the college basketball game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these help instead of hinder, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these help instead of hinder, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13118]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a tough call, but a sensible one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a tough call, but a sensible one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Danger) didn't even come to my mind at the time. I was just thinking of getting the police officers out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31825]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Danger) didn't even come to my mind at the time. I was just thinking of getting the police officers out of the car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God comes to see without a bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49267]]></link><description><![CDATA[God comes to see without a bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24655]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We go to the hospital twice a week. She has had bone marrow biopsies, four blood transfusions and numerous tests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40951]]></link><description><![CDATA[We go to the hospital twice a week. She has had bone marrow biopsies, four blood transfusions and numerous tests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finally I paid every bill. My plantation in Pennsylvania had been sold and nothing was left to me but my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finally I paid every bill. My plantation in Pennsylvania had been sold and nothing was left to me but my humble talents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look back, and all of this doesn't seem real. It's amazing how God has helped me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look back, and all of this doesn't seem real. It's amazing how God has helped me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44180]]></link><description><![CDATA[As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. - The Oracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. - The Oracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is the reward of virtue. [Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is the reward of virtue. [Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Wherever the missionary character of the doctrine of election is forgotten; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Wherever the missionary character of the doctrine of election is forgotten; wherever it is forgotten that we are chosen in order to be sent; wherever the minds of believers are concerned more to probe backwards from their election into the reasons for it in the secret counsel of God, than to press forward from their election to the purpose of it, ... that they should be Christ's ambassadors and witnesses to the ends of the earth, wherever men think that the purpose of election is their own salvation rather than the salvation of the world: then God's people have betrayed their trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49895]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne  My part of evil only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60882]]></link><description><![CDATA[O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne  My part of evil only.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45383]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20013]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!"  Vain hopes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!"  Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast!   What man can look on Death unterrified?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and it is us. - "Pogo comic strip". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44230]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and it is us. - "Pogo comic strip".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago  On a throne of rocks, in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago  On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds,   With a diadem of snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have only one eye,--I have a right to be blind sometimes . . . I really do not see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have only one eye,--I have a right to be blind sometimes . . . I really do not see the signal!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this one I just want to make sure it was OK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30711]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this one I just want to make sure it was OK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people gathered to a political meeting, and the chief speaker spoke to them only for some quarter of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7848]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people gathered to a political meeting, and the chief speaker spoke to them only for some quarter of an hour, they would be annoyed, would feel with some resentment that he had not taken them seriously, had dealt much too cavalierly with the question of the hour, an Ulster boundary, or such like. But the things of the soul are far more momentous, and to be asked to deal with huge, unfathomable facts like the Cross in a few minutes, means that people are not really interested in these things. This is, of course, a snippety age, with a snippety press, and snippety novels. But must we preachers follow and be snippety, too?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21502]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love,  I rather would entreat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love,  I rather would entreat thy company   To see the wonders of the world abroad    Than, living dully sluggardized at home,     Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63562]]></link><description><![CDATA[On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29859]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we leave people on their own, we are delivering them into the hands of a ruthless taskmaster from whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52329]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we leave people on their own, we are delivering them into the hands of a ruthless taskmaster from whose bondage there is no escape. The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52329</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[I love humanity, it's the people I can't stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22318]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love humanity, it's the people I can't stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born out of concern for all beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born out of concern for all beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do have maps in the lobby of the Des Moines Police Department that's open 24 hours a day, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30210]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do have maps in the lobby of the Des Moines Police Department that's open 24 hours a day, but they will see there's very limited space. And the space they have open, I'd be surprised if they (have) any luck finding a place to live,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It's all small stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It's all small stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44215]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I know no South, no North, no East, no West, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45771]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really see [today's bad corporate news] as significant fundamental factors, I see it more as an excuse for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28346]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really see [today's bad corporate news] as significant fundamental factors, I see it more as an excuse for short-term profit-taking. The correction we've seen is very small relative to the rally we've seen in the last few weeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17461]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13024]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62131]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work,  And tools to work withal, for those who will;   And blessed are the horny hand of toil!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3003</guid></item></channel></rss>