<?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[We do not condone the sale of Kentucky Derby tickets for higher than face value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38757]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not condone the sale of Kentucky Derby tickets for higher than face value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we going to build a house without doors and windows, or are we going to put doors and windows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are we going to build a house without doors and windows, or are we going to put doors and windows in the dang thing so it can be used?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30836</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[We hire people who want to make the best things in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63979]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  The word religion is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  The word religion is extremely rare in the New Testament and the writings of mystics. The reason is simple. Those attitudes and practices to which we give the collective name of religion are themselves concerned with religion hardly at all. To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God. Therefore, almost by definition, a religious man, or a man when he is being religious, is not thinking about religion; he hasn't the time. Religion is what we (or he himself at a later moment) call his activity from outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks I got the sun in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks I got the sun in the mornin' -- and the moon at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is like rheume, it falles on the weakest parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is like rheume, it falles on the weakest parts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the gods are dead-- Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt,  And doubt is brother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12755]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the gods are dead-- Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt,  And doubt is brother devil to Despair!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54256]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike income, or even sales taxes, property taxes are not accurate indicators of your cash at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike income, or even sales taxes, property taxes are not accurate indicators of your cash at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When David [Arquette] and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59123]]></link><description><![CDATA[When David [Arquette] and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55421]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33127]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21469]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's difficult to survive on this wicket with the new ball, but after it gets old it's easy to play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39404]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's difficult to survive on this wicket with the new ball, but after it gets old it's easy to play your shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44025]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The neighbors had been asking the mayor to destroy the structures to erase the stigma already attached to the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The neighbors had been asking the mayor to destroy the structures to erase the stigma already attached to the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I might have to cruise into Barrington tomorrow morning, ... and put a banana in his tailpipe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I might have to cruise into Barrington tomorrow morning, ... and put a banana in his tailpipe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold. [Fr., Je voudrais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold. [Fr., Je voudrais bien voir la grimace qu'il fait a cette heure sur cet echafaud.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We declare war with the wages system, which demoralizes alike the hirer and the hired, cheats both, and enslaves the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61059]]></link><description><![CDATA[We declare war with the wages system, which demoralizes alike the hirer and the hired, cheats both, and enslaves the workingman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't get mad, get even. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't get mad, get even.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have proved that one (species) is transforming into the other, so this evidence is important to show that there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30084]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have proved that one (species) is transforming into the other, so this evidence is important to show that there is human evolution... that human evolution is a fact and not a hypothesis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt;  Unwritten history!   Unfathomed mystery!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt;  Unwritten history!   Unfathomed mystery!    Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks,     And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks,      As if his head were as full of kinks       And curious riddles as any sphinx!   - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the cleare we should see through it. -Jean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the cleare we should see through it. -Jean Paul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell;  All the other sounds we hear,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell;  All the other sounds we hear,   Flatter, and but cheat our ear.    This doth put us still in mind     That our flesh must be resigned,      And, a general silence made,       The world be muffled in a shade.        [Orpheus' lute, as poets tell,         Was but moral of this bell,          And the captive soul was she,           Which they called Eurydice,            Rescued by our holy groan,             A loud echo to this tone.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot create observers by saying "observe," but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44781]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot create observers by saying "observe," but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Impossible DreamTo dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foeTo bear the unbearable sorrowTo run where the brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Impossible DreamTo dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foeTo bear the unbearable sorrowTo run where the brave dare not goTo write the unwritable wrongTo be better far than you areTo try when your arms are too wearyThe reach the unreachable starThis is my quest, to follow that starNo matter how hopeless,No matter how farTo fight for the rightWhithout question or pauseTo be willing to march into hellFor a heavenly causeAnd I know if I'll only be trueTo this glorious questThat my heart will be peaceful and calmWhen I'm laid to my restAnd the world would be better for thisThat one man scorned and covered with scarsStill strove with his last ounce of courageTo reach the unreachable starmusic by Leigh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45791]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the runs of Iona.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31986]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's our first road win in conference, and we knew it was really important. These last two (the Cougars beat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29741]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's our first road win in conference, and we knew it was really important. These last two (the Cougars beat TCU 89-80 in overtime Wednesday) were do or die for us as far as staying in the conference race. I'm not sure how, but we'll take it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52940]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57412]]></link><description><![CDATA[His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring;  Sea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring;  Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give,   And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel pretty much validated. All this time we thought that things had been wrong (with) the quality of care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40831]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel pretty much validated. All this time we thought that things had been wrong (with) the quality of care that we received. And now we know that's the case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43666]]></link><description><![CDATA[However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required "blood and sweat and tears.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4358</guid></item></channel></rss>