<?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'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11401]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was not the vice president's fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39560]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was not the vice president's fault.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is knowing when to be immature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is knowing when to be immature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22554]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led….]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our friends, the enemy. [Fr., Nos amis, les ennemis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our friends, the enemy. [Fr., Nos amis, les ennemis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22108]]></link><description><![CDATA[You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56819]]></link><description><![CDATA[While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that many people have nothing useful to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense,  Old riddles still bid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54837]]></link><description><![CDATA[But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense,  Old riddles still bid us defiance,   Old questions of Why and of Whence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know they have a lot of team speed. Their linebacker (C.J Lee) looks pretty good, and they have some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know they have a lot of team speed. Their linebacker (C.J Lee) looks pretty good, and they have some other good players. But I know we're ready. More than ready for whatever they bring at us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59348]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. -Jim Bishop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5311]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So obliging that he ne'er obliged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50940]]></link><description><![CDATA[So obliging that he ne'er obliged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away  Over the snowy peaks! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8908]]></link><description><![CDATA[See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away  Over the snowy peaks!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get something done a committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9006]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get something done a committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43877]]></link><description><![CDATA[And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17398]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46100]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it.It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66409]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it.It's kind of fun to do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though good faith should be banished from the rest of the world, it should be found in the mouths of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though good faith should be banished from the rest of the world, it should be found in the mouths of kings. [Fr., Si la bonne foi etait bannie du reste du monde, il faudrait qu'on la trouvat dans la bouche des rois.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2454]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, "What if?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14275]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.-- This grave shall have a living monument.  An hour of quiet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.-- This grave shall have a living monument.  An hour of quiet shortly shall we see;   Till then in patience our proceeding be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15565]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes snug ballads from a cart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes snug ballads from a cart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43288]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How did Jesus show his authority? Not by making vast claims for himself, though such claims were implicit. His authority ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7111]]></link><description><![CDATA[How did Jesus show his authority? Not by making vast claims for himself, though such claims were implicit. His authority seemed to reside in what he was and what he did rather than in what he specifically claimed to be. Especially in Mark's Gospel there is an elusive quality about his authority, the mystery of the hidden Messiah. His authority was at the same time most deeply hidden and most clearly expressed by his servanthood... The more the Church in its life shows forth the character of the Servant, the more will its teaching bear the marks of the authority of the Servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44066]]></link><description><![CDATA[By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28161]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who promises runs in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11503]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who promises runs in debt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54645]]></link><description><![CDATA[A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only if, for some reason, the government falls, there is an election and the Liberals win, Mr. Graham presumably would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only if, for some reason, the government falls, there is an election and the Liberals win, Mr. Graham presumably would lead them into an election should that be held.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16607]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured, if they're going to do that, ... I'd throw in a surge, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured, if they're going to do that, ... I'd throw in a surge, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44499]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're in really good territory, with a lot of hunters, a lot of sportsmen and a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29264]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're in really good territory, with a lot of hunters, a lot of sportsmen and a lot of NRA members.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57746]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of creative things you can do as a consumer to further maximize your rebate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32291]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of creative things you can do as a consumer to further maximize your rebate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evidently the pepper spray had no effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evidently the pepper spray had no effect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12190</guid></item></channel></rss>