<?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[Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They used to throw this stuff away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40629]]></link><description><![CDATA[They used to throw this stuff away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The music is great and it's a great political satire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39229]]></link><description><![CDATA[The music is great and it's a great political satire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two rules to follow: 1) Don't sweat the small stuff. 2) It's all smallstuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two rules to follow: 1) Don't sweat the small stuff. 2) It's all smallstuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little wealth, little care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little wealth, little care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle" "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manie things are lost for want of asking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manie things are lost for want of asking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33534]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion that their daily birth  From all the fuming vanities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion that their daily birth  From all the fuming vanities of earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45226]]></link><description><![CDATA[For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all the awards she was given, she never put one on the wall. They're all under the bed. She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31090]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all the awards she was given, she never put one on the wall. They're all under the bed. She said that she didn't need that; she knew what she'd done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of these guys are getting old, and they pee a lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of these guys are getting old, and they pee a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18720]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/69]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/69</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That kid was aggressive. He came after Terence, but Terence stepped it up and did his job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28351]]></link><description><![CDATA[That kid was aggressive. He came after Terence, but Terence stepped it up and did his job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951  One can give without loving, but one cannot love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951  One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the outages were related to winds. In some areas, the ground was so saturated that the wind knocked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32813]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the outages were related to winds. In some areas, the ground was so saturated that the wind knocked trees over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25007]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the first time this system has been used. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34831]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the first time this system has been used.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59479]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty women make us BUY beer. Ugly women make us DRINK beer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretty women make us BUY beer. Ugly women make us DRINK beer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  Jesus calls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  Jesus calls us not only to repentance, to the "letting go" of the false gods we come to him with; but he goes one more difficult step farther: he also calls us to believe in him alone as the decisive, absolutely unique, once and for all, full revelation of God to man. This is extremely difficult for us, because Jesus was careful to give men no external guarantee that he was, in fact, God in the flesh. Otherwise, he realized, we would not be worshipping him, but would only be worshipping or trusting in the guarantee, whatever it might be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17944]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17692]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the afternoon of her best days. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the afternoon of her best days. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not sure people realize how big it is to be at the top of the pyramid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41644]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not sure people realize how big it is to be at the top of the pyramid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world has been made by fools that men should live in it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26242]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world has been made by fools that men should live in it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I noticed an almost universal trait among Super Achievers, and it was what I call Sensory Goal Vision. These people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14538]]></link><description><![CDATA[I noticed an almost universal trait among Super Achievers, and it was what I call Sensory Goal Vision. These people knew what they wanted out of life, and they could sense it multidimensionally before they ever had it. They could not only see it, but also taste it, smell it, and imagine the sounds and emotions associated with it. They pre-lived it before they had it. And the sharp, sensory vision became a powerful driving force in their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47568]]></link><description><![CDATA[From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63510]]></link><description><![CDATA[In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,  Feed on her damask cheek. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51525]]></link><description><![CDATA[She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,  Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought;   And, with a green and yellow melancholy,    She sat like Patience on a monument,     Smiling at grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65005]]></link><description><![CDATA[The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14966]]></link><description><![CDATA[His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No surpise in Istanbul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37214]]></link><description><![CDATA[No surpise in Istanbul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just don't know how you make people get along, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just don't know how you make people get along,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mr. absent, and the house dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mr. absent, and the house dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63958]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O wild and wondrous midnight, There is a might in thee  To make the charmed body   Almost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27454]]></link><description><![CDATA[O wild and wondrous midnight, There is a might in thee  To make the charmed body   Almost like spirit be,    And give it some faint glimpses     Of immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64863]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a precautionary measure, we have detained 20 protestors who were aggravating the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41366]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a precautionary measure, we have detained 20 protestors who were aggravating the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the little guy, it's getting harder and harder to compete with the big boys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42434]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the little guy, it's getting harder and harder to compete with the big boys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I basically shoot the movie the way I think it should be cut, so my directives to the editor are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I basically shoot the movie the way I think it should be cut, so my directives to the editor are in the camera.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44844]]></link><description><![CDATA[They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44844</guid></item></channel></rss>