<?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[Lou played well. He started one game last year, but this was his real varsity debut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lou played well. He started one game last year, but this was his real varsity debut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't do drugs. I am drugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65320]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't do drugs. I am drugs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62029]]></link><description><![CDATA[When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The days of rejoicing are gone forever. [Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45673]]></link><description><![CDATA[The days of rejoicing are gone forever. [Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a surplus of natural gas in inventories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39173]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a surplus of natural gas in inventories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the way the world is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15685]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the way the world is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11611]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63224]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13381]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm dense when it comes to discouragement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41209]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Continuing a series on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Continuing a series on the church:  The apostle asked the converts of Apollos one question: "Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" and got a plain answer. His modern successors are more inclined to ask either "Did you believe exactly what we teach?" or "Were the hands that were laid on you our hands?", and -- if the answer is satisfactory -- to assure the converts that they have received the Holy Spirit even if they don't know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers mark  As a shrine where the sunlight serves, though the blown clouds hover, Sark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daybreak is one of the greatest disadvantages of living under the solar system: It means having to get up almost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daybreak is one of the greatest disadvantages of living under the solar system: It means having to get up almost the very minute you go to bed, And bathe and shave and scrub industriously at your molar system And catch a train and go to the office an]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11113</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[His behavior changed. He really wasn't the same when he was traded to Colorado (by the A's in 2001). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35420]]></link><description><![CDATA[His behavior changed. He really wasn't the same when he was traded to Colorado (by the A's in 2001).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62856]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4430]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35825]]></link><description><![CDATA[You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58609]]></link><description><![CDATA[But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to a friend's house is never long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to a friend's house is never long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19938]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce  Lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23502]]></link><description><![CDATA[So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce  Lie still without a fee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing impossible to him who will try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63300]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing impossible to him who will try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is great enough that is his own master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53309]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is great enough that is his own master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a real risk that this motion could succeed ... and we need to deal with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40538]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a real risk that this motion could succeed ... and we need to deal with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge of a jest when you have done laughing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody remembers Ironton in its heyday in the '40s and '50s, that's when Ironton was booming and we've gone downhill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody remembers Ironton in its heyday in the '40s and '50s, that's when Ironton was booming and we've gone downhill, and we have, we've hit rock bottom, ... But if we all don't stand together, we're not going to stand back up. It's going to take all of us to put it back on track.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17256]]></link><description><![CDATA[The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the end of a generation that remade and saved baseball in Seattle. He's the last connection to that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31913]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the end of a generation that remade and saved baseball in Seattle. He's the last connection to that miracle 1995 team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're seeing a tickling of inflation in the pipeline but it's not going to be passed on to the consumer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30766]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're seeing a tickling of inflation in the pipeline but it's not going to be passed on to the consumer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than their years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than their years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One picture is worth ten thousand words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48615]]></link><description><![CDATA[One picture is worth ten thousand words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10309]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he would tell you he wasn't very happy with the way he played overall last year. He's worked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he would tell you he wasn't very happy with the way he played overall last year. He's worked hard in individual workouts, and I know he has some big goals for this season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody loves you when they are about to cum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody loves you when they are about to cum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown  And glittering eyes that showed their right  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12801]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown  And glittering eyes that showed their right   To general Nature's deep delight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12801</guid></item></channel></rss>