<?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[A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19263]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hippies are lots of fun, as long as they are not involved in commerce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hippies are lots of fun, as long as they are not involved in commerce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scott went to the bucket hard all night against the taller Wolves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scott went to the bucket hard all night against the taller Wolves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatively speaking, my understanding of the law is that if Google went to scan in a book without the author's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservatively speaking, my understanding of the law is that if Google went to scan in a book without the author's permission, then that would be a violation of copyright law. I think it would be great to be able to search text electronically, but you have to get the copyright permission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was betrothed that day; I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23819]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was betrothed that day; I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49900]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56947]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will continue to lead by example. Actions, of course, speak louder than words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will continue to lead by example. Actions, of course, speak louder than words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.") [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57340]]></link><description><![CDATA[To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.") [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou, in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a life-long monument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou, in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a life-long monument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43046</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[Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which two will, takes effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49789]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which two will, takes effect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that serves well needes not ask his wages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49393]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that serves well needes not ask his wages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8103]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything but thy father's son, 'Tis something not yet from the darkness won. Oh, give me light to live with open eyes. Oh, give me life to hope above all skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/901]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true "gift" in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man delights not me--nor woman neither, though, by your smiling you seem to say so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man delights not me--nor woman neither, though, by your smiling you seem to say so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good friends are good for your health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good friends are good for your health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To change and to change for the better are two different things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22139]]></link><description><![CDATA[To change and to change for the better are two different things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more projects looming. Certainly the activity is there, and our customers are healthier than they have been. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35832]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more projects looming. Certainly the activity is there, and our customers are healthier than they have been. The wood composite business continues to do well for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55033]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only to persevere in His holy presence, wherein I keep myself by a simple attention and a general fond regard to God, which I may call an actual presence of God -- or, to speak better, an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul with God, which often causes in me joys and raptures inwardly, and sometimes also outwardly, so great, that I am forced to use means to moderate them, and to prevent their appearance to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12952]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Banished the doctor, and expell'd the friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Banished the doctor, and expell'd the friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was their (the state's) request. That's not something we put on the table. We certainly recognize the value of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32161]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was their (the state's) request. That's not something we put on the table. We certainly recognize the value of that land. It's not our intention to make that part of the transaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62479]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of the 181 elected Texas legislators serving during the 79th Legislative Session and special called sessions in Austin, only 11 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of the 181 elected Texas legislators serving during the 79th Legislative Session and special called sessions in Austin, only 11 legislators were commended for their conservative voting record. We appreciate those legislators who made Texas families their priority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61047]]></link><description><![CDATA[As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it.The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47655]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it.The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true Amphitryon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true Amphitryon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58892]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21087]]></link><description><![CDATA[To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Sang To Me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You Sang To Me,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They love this spot. It's a high point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37850]]></link><description><![CDATA[They love this spot. It's a high point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    Wherever God's Word may be preached, His precepts remain a letter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    Wherever God's Word may be preached, His precepts remain a letter and dead words so long as they are not received by men with a pure heart; only where they pierce to the soul do they become, so to speak, changed into Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12927]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65151]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42275]]></link><description><![CDATA[I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sovereignty may be dependent on our ability to eavesdrop on transmissions between our enemies on the outside and those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sovereignty may be dependent on our ability to eavesdrop on transmissions between our enemies on the outside and those on the inside with sympathies for them. I trust my ability to determine who to mark for examination and so will you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64159</guid></item></channel></rss>