<?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[Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no Past, so long as Books shall live! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4547]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particulars of which it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particulars of which it is composed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud of paying taxes. The only thing is--I could be just as proud for half the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud of paying taxes. The only thing is--I could be just as proud for half the money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone says "can't," that shows you what to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21464]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone says "can't," that shows you what to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over  Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over  Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath,   He understood b' implicit faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By penitence th' Eternal's wrath's appeas'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51538]]></link><description><![CDATA[By penitence th' Eternal's wrath's appeas'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who suffers before it is necessary,suffers more than isnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21264]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who suffers before it is necessary,suffers more than isnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13648]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12571]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66200]]></link><description><![CDATA[How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to have him back, but I am not optimistic. It could fall apart, but they are past ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to have him back, but I am not optimistic. It could fall apart, but they are past the money and now working on terms that are easier to resolve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11583]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majorities because they are supported by the approval of their neighbors. It’s not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord get his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the husband be not at home, there is nobodie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the husband be not at home, there is nobodie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a community, it's not a neighborhood, it's not everything a neighborhood should be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41006]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a community, it's not a neighborhood, it's not everything a neighborhood should be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We called William Grice to the stand because he said he was with Cannon the day they tried to arrest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29259]]></link><description><![CDATA[We called William Grice to the stand because he said he was with Cannon the day they tried to arrest him in Montgomery to pick up his cousin. We did some research and found out that Grice was stabbed that day and he was in the hospital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people drop out along the way and you need others to stay for a support group, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people drop out along the way and you need others to stay for a support group,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen, A bloody tyrant and a homicide;  One raised in blood and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59977]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen, A bloody tyrant and a homicide;  One raised in blood and one in blood established;   One that made means to come by what he hath,    And slaughtered those that were the means to help him;     A base foul stone, made precious by the foil      Of England's chair, where he is falsely set;       One that hath ever been God's enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was very relaxing. We talked about what made me smoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29198]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was very relaxing. We talked about what made me smoke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1259]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek simplicity but distrust it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek simplicity but distrust it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not a for-loss company. This is something we should do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36054]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not a for-loss company. This is something we should do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  I desire to exercise my faith in the most difficult ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  I desire to exercise my faith in the most difficult point, for to credit ordinary and visible objects is not faith, but persuasion. Some believe the better for seeing Christ's Sepulchre, and when they have seen the Red Sea, doubt not the miracle. Now contrarily I bless myself, and am thankful that I lived not in the days of miracles, that I never saw Christ nor His Disciples; I would not have been one of those Israelites that passed the Red Sea, nor one of Christ's patients, on whom He wrought His wonders; then had my faith been thrust upon me, nor should I enjoy that greater blessing pronounced to all that believe and saw not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only open to students now and we basically worked out an agreement with the AA where they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33085]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only open to students now and we basically worked out an agreement with the AA where they are still going to pay for maintenance, but the CRC is in charge of operating the facility. They check people's BuzzCard, maintain the facility, and check for non-marking shoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to put my money on it, ... I'd say he's not going to read it. He might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37096]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to put my money on it, ... I'd say he's not going to read it. He might leaf through it. He's not going to sit down and read it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44154]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The buttercups, bright-eyed and bold, Held up their chalices of gold  To catch the sunshine and the dew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The buttercups, bright-eyed and bold, Held up their chalices of gold  To catch the sunshine and the dew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints O Lord! how happy should we be, If we could leave our cares to Thee,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints O Lord! how happy should we be, If we could leave our cares to Thee,   If we from self could rest; And feel at heart that One above, In perfect wisdom, perfect love,   Is working for the best. For when we kneel and cast our care Upon our God in humble prayer,   With strengthened souls we rise, Sure that our Father Who is nigh, To hear the ravens when they cry,   Will hear His children's cries. O may these anxious hearts of ours The lesson learn from birds and flowers,   And learn from self to cease, Leave all things to our Father's will, And in His mercy trusting still,   Find in each trial peace!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel wonderful because I see / The love light in your eyes. / And the wonder of it all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel wonderful because I see / The love light in your eyes. / And the wonder of it all / Is that you just don't realize how much I love you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18966]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9367]]></link><description><![CDATA[The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Penny wise, pound foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Penny wise, pound foolish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In winter, places look very different, and it gives a feeling of exploration. It rejuvenates you for the coming week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29032]]></link><description><![CDATA[In winter, places look very different, and it gives a feeling of exploration. It rejuvenates you for the coming week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're very athletic, and they run the floor. They have tough-minded guys and they never give up. Even when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34523]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're very athletic, and they run the floor. They have tough-minded guys and they never give up. Even when you have a lead, they always find a way to come back. It's an ACC game and it's going to be a close game I'm sure. We're just going to have to be consistent throughout the game; we can't have long periods where we don't score.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2071]]></link><description><![CDATA[She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56290]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53613</guid></item></channel></rss>